Two-shifting again at BW02 on Saturday 11th October 2025
Worth noting that Saturday 11th October 2025 saw Bayswater Unit 2 perform the two-shift shuffle again.
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Winners announced, for CIS Tender 4
One day after the conclusion of the inaugural NEMdev 2025 conference (during which the CIS was discussed), the announcement was made of the winners of the Tender Round 4 of the Capacity Investment Scheme.
The ‘Queensland Energy Roadmap 2025’ is released
Today (Friday 10th October 2025), the State LNP Government has released its ‘Queensland Energy Roadmap 2025’ as the replacement for the prior Labor Government’s QEJP.
Three themes from NEMDEV 2025
Dan shares a short reflection on three high-level themes that resonated throughout the NEMDEV conference in Brisbane this week. From winter reliability to rising costs and market reform, the discussions raised important questions about...
What happens, when Supply ≠ Demand?
For short term reasons (related to the Nelson Review and the NEMDev conference) and longer-term reasons, we thought it was useful to post this as a stand-alone article now.
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.
Aggregate (estimated) curtailment of Large Solar exceeds 70% on Sunday 5th October 2025
On the prior weekend (Saturday 4th October 2025 and Sunday 5th October 2025) we saw high levels of aggregate curtailment across all Large Solar Farms.
Also difficult to see any fluctuation in Mainland Frequency on Sunday morning 5th October 2025, with BW02 offline (two-shifting)
Not seeing any obvious blip in system frequency (at the time BW02 came offline on Sat 4th Oct 2025) we also looked at the similar outage on Sun 5th Oct 2025.
Difficult to see any fluctuation in Mainland Frequency on Saturday morning 4th October 2025, with BW02 offline (two-shifting)
I was keen to see if there was any noticeable blip in System Frequency resulting from the BW02 unit coming offline on Saturday 4th October 2025 for the brief (two-shift) outage.
Talk about two-shifting … such as with BW02 on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2025
Today's LinkedIn update from Geoff Eldridge at GPE about two-shifting at BW02 (such as on Sat 4th Oct 2025 and Sun 5th Oct 2025) coincides with other investigations, and prompts me to take a...
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Runway cost allocation – ready for liftoff?
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.
What the hail is happening with Brisbane’s weather?
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.
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