Commencement of (testing) operations at Hunter (Kurri Kurri) GT in NSW
We saw first output from the HUNTER1 unit (the first of two at Snowy Hydro's new peaker) on Sunday 27th July 2025. So we're looking a little further, in this article.
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Reece Unit 1 returns to service after outage (coincident with fire onsite) … but Unit 2 outage lengthens
On Sunday 3rd Aug 2025 there (appears to have been) a fire at Reece Power Station, and both units tripped. We saw REECE1 return to service Friday evening, but REECE2 looks set for a...
Recapping operations at Waratah BESS (including enablement for SIPS) … to August 2025
The Waratah Super Battery System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS) was enabled by TransGrid at last Friday 1st August 2025. This prompts this look back on operations thus far.
Would it even be possible – to operate the NEM to achieve 82% renewable energy in 2030 (if the Semi-Scheduled category continues in its current form)?
Yesterday's release of the draft report of the Nelson Review has prompted me to re-frame a question I've asked before about the Semi-Scheduled category.
Video recording of presentation by the Nelson Review panel (on Wed 6th Aug 2025), hosted by The Energy, available now
Yesterday (Wed 6th Aug 2025) we saw the draft report from the ‘Nelson Review’ Panel released ... followed by a presentation by the panel members facilitated by The Energy. The recording of this webinar...
Draft Report from the ‘Nelson Review’ Panel is released, on Wednesday 6th August 2025
In yesterday’s wrap of the past 5 weeks, I’d noted that Tim Nelson (when speaking at #ACES2025 last Tuesday) said that the Panel had not quite finished the draft report, but it was ‘imminent’....
Possible Fire at Reece Power Station – units out of service
Following a tip from a WattClarity reader, we take a quick look at a forced outage for both units at the Reece (hydro) Power Station in Tasmania ... possibly related to an apparent fire...
Catching up, after ~5 weeks away … what (else) did I miss?
It’s Tuesday 5th August 2025, my second day back in the office – and this is my first article on WattClarity since this article on Friday 27th June 2025. In this article I've invested...
Four answers we received during the 2025 Clean Energy Summit in Sydney this week
Dan provides his review for ACES 2025, and tries to answer some of the questions we were pondering going into the conference.
Frequency performance payments 44 days in, part 2
Categories with a longer bar left of zero are losing more of their spot energy market revenue to regulation and PFR costs.
Guest Authored Posts
How the NEM BESS fleet is operating on peak days, and how to be a savvy operator
In this guest article, Matt Grover from Fluence draws on operational data and real-world trading experience to unpack how Australia’s grid-scale batteries performed across three June 2025 peak days — and what capabilities belong...
Why Gladstone’s prospective closure reveals a new kind of NEM failure
With the Queensland state government’s new energy roadmap due out tomorrow, Greg Elkins highlights how distorted signals and state interventions expose a new NEM failure.
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Why are we completing this extensive review of what happened over a very volatile summer in QLD – and why, and what the future implications might be?
Why are we investing significant time in completing this review of what was remarkable price volatility in QLD over summer? We're primarily a software company that develops shrink-wrapped products used by about 100 market...