False (re)start at Loy Yang A2 on 25th October
Prompted by a comment by a WattClarity reader, I've taken a quick look at Loy Yang A2 for the past week.
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A new lowest point for NSW demand on Saturday 29th October 2022
Electricity demand in NSW has dropped to a new 'lowest in NEM history' point on Saturday 29th October 2022
AEMO publishes ‘Scheduling Error Report’ related to problems experienced on 10th August 2022
Also this week, the AEMO published a report about the glitch in the dispatch process that occurred back on 10th August 2022.
AEMO releases preliminary report into Tasmanian event on Friday 14th October 2022 (i.e. Article 5 in our series)
On Friday 28th October, the AEMO released its preliminary report into the storm damage to Liapootah – Palmerston 220 kV lines (loss of more than 500MW of load, and trip of Basslink and multiple...
AEMO released its QED for 2022 Q3
A quick note to mark Thursday's release of the QED for Q3 2022 by the AEMO
Quick initial notes about price spike at 17:30 on Friday 28th October 2022
A quick look at a brief price spike in NSW and QLD on Friday evening 28th October - which appears to be related to a Ravine -Yass(2) 330kV line outage.
Slightly more detail on System Frequency on Friday 14th October 2022 (Part 4)
Zooming into the ~7 minute period during which the initial event occurred in TAS on Friday 14th October 2022.
Dan Andrews used that* four letter word to launch their Election Energy Policy
Last Thursday 20th October the Victorian Labor Government, in the midst of seeking re-election, had its own turn at releasing an Energy Policy that caused quite a stir...
Several different timeframes for investigating the major Tasmanian system event beginning Friday 14th October 2022
Third article on what happened on Friday 14th October 2022 - sharing a photograph of the damaged transmission (thanks to TasNetworks for the photo, and Zeus for the weather) and outlining a number of...
Uncharted territory for rooftop PV in South Australia
Hot on the heels of a new low point for Operational Demand in South Australia on the weekend, this evening AEMO warns of an ‘elevated risk of contingent disconnection of Distributed PV’ tomorrow (Wed...
Guest Authored Posts
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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