On Thursday last week the AEMC published a Draft Determination in response to an application by AEC to combat one form of 'Villain #8' in relation to Registration...
30-minute pre-dispatch provides critical forward price information to the NEM - but what exactly will it mean after five-minute settlement? Marcelle takes a look.
In this article we discuss the 1st of 3 Potential Tripwires that wholesale market participants and others will encounter from October 2021 ... with Tripwire #1 coming from...
A short article, flagging three potential tripwires we'd like to ensure NEM participants and other stakeholders are aware of in the lead-up to two significant market changes from...
James Tetlow from Overwatch Energy explains an important rule change that was recently introduced that has seen a significant increase in the civil penalties for generators who fail...
A quick synopsis of some market reforms at the AEMC relating to system frequency.
One of the many data sets being crunched as part of our analytical efforts underpinning the development of 'GenInsights21' is system frequency. In this short article today, we...
Just under 3 weeks ago (on 22nd April 2021) the AEMC published a draft determination that would establish 'Fast Frequency Response' as an additional (i.e. 9th and 10th)...
A quick note to alert our readers that the ESB has published an Options Paper today on the post 2025 Market Design (with submissions due Wed 9th June...
This morning the AEMC has published its final rule focused on clarifying how Semi-Scheduled generators should follow dispatch targets - including in dispatch intervals where prices are negative,...
As promised in the Intermittent Generation Forum late in 2020, the AEMO has released an important Handbook for operators of Semi-Scheduled (wind and solar) assets.
Guest author Allan O'Neil puts together an in-depth explainer about system strength and looks at the current approach to system strength management in South Australia, its impacts and...
Following up to AEMO's recent Intermittent Generator forum, Marcelle looks at the challenges for wind and solar farms in providing consistently good plant availability information to AEMO and...
A recent development over in the WEM (paying energy users to consume, when there's too much solar and wind) highlights the lack of foresight in the NEM ......
Today (Thu 19th Nov 2020) the AEMC published a draft ruling following the AER request for a rule change relating to Semi-Scheduled generators ... which itself followed from...
Paul McArdle recently drew my attention to a short Twitter thread started by David Osmond on the arcane topic of NEM system frequency behaviour: At Paul’s invitation...
A brief note to inform readers that the AEMC is fast-tracking consideration of the AER's Proposed Rule Change on Semi-Scheduled assets ... but also to reinforce our view...
Guest author Stephen Wilson chaired an 'ESIG Down Under' conference webinar on 'Designing the Energy Markets of the Future'. Whilst introducing the session, Stephen presented a diagram that...
Following the consultation process conducted by the AER (stemming from their Issues Paper 3 months ago) the AER has today submitted a rule change request to the AEMC...
This morning (Mon 7th Sept 2020) the ESB released its Discussion Paper into the design of NEM 2.0 - with 7 different work streams suggested (and submissions due...