Obligations of Semi-Scheduled Units

A collation of articles pertaining to the obligations of Semi-Scheduled units operating in the NEM.

Paul McArdle Friday, July 24 2020

Striving to understand the underlying challenges with Semi-Scheduled generators (re AER Issues Paper)

Prompted by the recent AER Issues Paper (submissions on that due today – Friday 24th July) but also aware that I’ve not yet published some broader thoughts in response to the ESB’s requests for input into their Discussion Paper on the Two Sided Market concept, I’ve posted some further thoughts. These have been informed by a longitudinal analysis of Aggregate ‘Raw Off-target’ values across all Semi-Scheduled plant.

Marcelle Gannon Friday, July 17 2020

Semi-scheduled generation–what are the real issues?

Marcelle digs into the data to find out what the real issues are in the AER’s proposed rule change for semi-scheduled generators.

Paul McArdle Thursday, July 9 2020

‘Too Low for Zero’ as a parable for the AER Issues Paper?

Here’s an attempt to translate the concern underlying the AER Issues Paper into ‘plain English’ via the popular song.

Paul McArdle Tuesday, May 5 2020

Balancing Supply and Demand …. in the fast approaching ‘NEM 2.0’ world

Recent invitations (from COAG Energy Council and AEMO) prompt some further analysis of the data set assembled for the GSD2019 in order to understand more about one of the challenges in balancing Supply and Demand in the NEM 2.0 world.

Paul McArdle Tuesday, January 28 2020

Review of extremes in ‘Raw Off Target’ performance through 2019, with the Generator Statistical Digest 2019

Using the (hot off the press) Generator Statistical Digest 2019, we take a look across all 304 DUIDs to see how they performed through calendar 2019 in terms of large excesses in ‘Raw Off-Target’ in both directions. These results suggests implications for the future…

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