That’s all folks: the last unit of Liddell Power Station closes
Liddell Unit 1 ramped down it's output to 0MW at roughly 10:30am this morning, signaling the full retirement of Liddell Power Station.
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AEMO’s QED for Q1 2023 + AER’s analogous report released
A short article to note that the AEMO released it's QED for Q1 2023 this morning, and a list of the early media coverage.
AEMO intermittently forecasting LOR2 (Low Reserve Condition) for NSW for Saturday 29th April 2023 – the day after the last Liddell unit is scheduled to close
As many know, Liddell Unit 1 is slated to close today (the last of the 4 units), Friday 28th April. Unfortunately coincident with that, AEMO is forecasting LOR2 low reserve condition for the middle...
Timestamping Renewable Energy Certificates is a Bad Idea.
Tom Geiser argues against time-stamped Renewable Energy Certificates - and how the concept could impact trade, accuracy, market signals and other factors.
Fat lady singing for three down (with LD02 on the way out) and one to go at AGL’s Liddell Power Station
A short article to mark the closure of Liddell unit 2 on Wednesday evening, 26th April 2023.
Beryl Solar Farm (BERYLSF1) shut down with grass fires
Alerted by RenewEconomy on social media that Beryl Solar Farm was offline due to bushfires, I used ez2view to take a quick look.
Liddell’s unit 4 closes
A quick note to show the last dispatch interval of output from Lidell Unit 4, with the two remaining units slated to follow suit in the coming days.
Case Study of Tuesday 16th February 2021 (Part 1) … large instance of collective over-performance for Semi-Scheduled units
Another short article today presenting an overview of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) for Semi-Scheduled units on 16th February 2021 (the largest incidence of collective over-performance at that time).
Case Study of Tuesday 23rd August 2022 (Part 1) … large instance of collective over-performance for Semi-Scheduled units
Another short article today (from GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q3 2022) presenting an overview of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) for Semi-Scheduled units on 23rd August 2022.
Case Study of Friday 20th January 2023 (Part 1) … large instance of collective over-performance for Semi-Scheduled units
Another short article today (also from GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q1 2023) presenting an overview of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) for Semi-Scheduled units on Friday 20th January 2023.
Guest Authored Posts
The challenge of imperfect foresight: Storage operation in a highly renewable NEM
Josh Boegheim from Powerlink discusses the limitations of perfect foresight assumptions for system planning—and shares results from a recent study that simulated energy storage dispatch using deterministic and stochastic forecasting approaches.
The growing NEM BESS fleet: Who is controlling all this capacity, anyway?
Matt Grover from Fluence shares insights into the NEM's growing big battery fleet and what it means for the market and their operators. This article follows on from his keynote at the ESS two...
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