Looking forward into the week ahead in SA … living on the island
A first look forward to the week ahead in South Australia, to what's forecast in the market at a high level (using an ez2view trend widget).
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First night of living on an island … with SA disconnected from the rest of the NEM
Third article for Sunday 13th November 2022 - this one taking a quick look at some pricing activity in the ENERGY market overnight.
Curtailment of rooftop PV underway in South Australia
A short initial article to note that curtailment of distributed PV is underway in South Australia under processes previously established by the AEMO.
ElectraNet tweets about tower damage near Tailem Bend (out for a week)
Second article in a growing series about the islanding of South Australia from Saturday 12th November 2022.
South Australia islanded (and ~80,000 without power), on Saturday 12th November 2022 (and until Friday 18th Nov 2022)
An initial article with the islanding of the South Australian region on Saturday evening, 12th November 2022.
ESB releases Directions Paper with respect to Transmission Access Reform
Also today (Thursday 10th November 2022) the ESB has released a Directions Paper on Transmission Access Reform - including suggestions for both Investment Timeframe and Operational Timeframe.
Origin Energy (perhaps) to be acquired and broken apart?
A short article about Origin Energy's announcement today.
Callide B2 back online on Wednesday 9th November 2022
Callide B2 has returned to service - perhaps a bit earlier than earlier projections noted.
Analysis Paralysis – where has our engineering gone?
Kate Summers gave this speech about the 'paralysis by analysis' currently occurring in the energy industry at Melbourne's All-Energy Australia Conference on Wednesday 26th of October.
Back to the future
Greg Thorpe of Oakley Greenwood discusses some of the latest developments in the electricity sector which could be described as 'back to the future'.. and provides a forecast of what might follow.
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Triple C conditions (cold, calm and cloudy) across the NEM last Thursday evening 26th June 2025
Carl Daley examines the underlying conditions and outcomes that occurred last Thursday evening, the 26th of June.
We need more research on storage trading
In this guest post, Greg Williams calls for more research into how storage bidding—particularly auto-rebidding—is reshaping price formation and competition as flexible assets take centre stage in the NEM.
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