In this guest-authored article, Connor James explains the upcoming changes to the DMO, including the much publicised Solar Sharer Offer (SSO), and potential implications for energy sellers in NSW, SEQ, and SA.
A quick record of some volatility today in Regulation (and Contingency) FCAS prices in Tasmania on Wednesday 5th November 2025.
A short note to record the brief unplanned outage in the Powerlink network (on Wednesday 5th November 2025) that impacted customers in the Longreach, Blackall, Barcaldine and Clermont area.
Based on her presentation at All-Energy last week, Ellise Janetzki from Overwatch Energy shares some insights about asset control room requirements and operations.
It’s approaching 10 years since (in April 2016) we asked the question ‘What happens when energy is free?’. Well, this morning (Tuesday 4th November 2025) Minister Chris Bowen dropped the Media Release that speaks...
Four reflections from All-Energy 2025 in Melbourne last week— where home batteries took the limelight, government-backed contracting showed some cracks, control-room pressures loomed large, and gas remained the conference’s quiet taboo.
With respect to the ~17:00 period on Thursday 30th October 2025 (and the frequency drop, possibly outside the NOFB), we take a look at the Dispatch Error of individual Semi-Scheduled units to find patterns.
We take a second look at the frequency drop that occurred at ~17:01 (NEM time) on Thursday 30th October 2025.
Following this update on LinkedIn from CS Energy on Thursday 30th October 2025, we summarise outages at Callide B2 (two outages) and Callide C4 (one outage).
Loy Yang B1 has returned to service on Sunday morning 2nd November 2025 following a planned outage, not without some wobbles.
Allan O'Neil unpacks a proposal under consideration by the AEMC to apply “runway” cost allocation to contingency FCAS, explaining how this could materially change who pays for frequency security in the NEM.
Anthony Cornelius from WeatherWatch explains the climate drivers behind Southeast Queensland’s unusually intense 2025 hail season — context that matters for those tracking how extreme weather is evolving and influencing the energy market.
We're please to note that the Generator Statistical Digest 2021 (a.k.a. GSD2021) is available to clients from Monday 28th March 2022.
In this article we look more closely at 1st and 2nd February 2022 - and particularly at where and when the changes in rooftop PV occurred, narrowing our assessment to south-east Queensland regions. It...
AEMO recently imposed additional dispatch obligations on six non-scheduled wind farms in South Australia. We take a look at what this means in practice.
Following from the release of GenInsights21, in this article we look at some of what that analytical publication can help us understand, in terms of how the changing market is impacting on the role...
On Tuesday 21st December 2021 the AER requested the AEMC to consider changing the prescriptive requirements in the Rules for the AER to analyse particular types of market outcomes in particular ways, and instead...
It's Wednesday 15th December 2021 and we have released GenInsights21 (a deep dive exploration, asking what history can tell us of the challenges and requirements of the accelerating energy transition).
Following from some analytical work performed in testing for Five Minute Settlement, here's a view of latency of rebids (all DUIDs, all commodities) in recent months that prompts a number of questions...
Day-ahead demand forecasts will be integral to any future 'Ahead Market'. We take a look at the current state and accuracy trend of demand forecasts made 24 hours ahead as part of the broader...