Four coal unit outages in the past 24 hours
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different 'coal unit off' alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look ...
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Record for NEM-wide wind production nudged slightly higher on Thu 8th June 2023
Looks like we hit a new record for NEM-wide wind production on Thursday evening 8th June 2023 ... slightly increasing on the prior record from 10 months ago.
Another research paper into solar and wind droughts in Australia
A quick note at another research paper (focused on an area of interest to us) that's crossed our field of vision.
Reader question about current (planned) outage at Millmerran unit 2
Answering a reader question (about the current outage at Millmerran unit 2) with some pictures in an article on WattClarity.
AER writes ‘Stanwell fined for allegedly putting power system security and stability at risk’ … re May 2021 Callide Explosion
Also today, we saw an AER notice about fines paid by Stanwell Corporation related to what happened after Callide C4 exploded on 25th May 2021
AEMO releases outlook for Winter 2023
Worth a short note that (on the first official day of winter … though in temperature terms it started some weeks ago) they have published a Media Release...
Digging further into ‘Aggregate Scheduled Target’, to understand what Dispatchable Capacity is actually required
In conjunction with the analysis done to complete GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q1 2023 (released today), here's 14 years of daily data of 'Aggregate Scheduled Target' that might...
GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q1 2023 released
A quick note on Wednesday 31st May 2023 to mark the release of GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q1 2023.
ABC says ‘coldest May minimum temperatures on record’
An ABC news article on 31st May provides some clues as to the volatility seen in some regions through May.
Spot volatility again, in QLD and NSW, on Tuesday evening 30th May 2023
It's Monday evening 30th May 2023 and prices have spiked in QLD and NSW again - similar situation as other recent days.
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Hot chips, algorithms and electricity markets
Declan Kelly thinks through and discusses competition issues that could arise from the increasing proliferation of auto-bidding software by big batteries in the NEM - and suggests some...
NEMDE nightmares – parallel pathways and clashing constraints
Prompted by a question by a client in a training session for a new ez2view user, guest author Allan O'Neil has written 2,940 words to explain the price...
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