Declan Kelly thinks through and discusses competition issues that could arise from the increasing proliferation of auto-bidding software by big batteries in the NEM - and suggests some pre-emptive steps that that could be...
A question from a client led me to take a (very quick) look at curtailment over the recent weekend (Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February 2025) at New England Solar Farm 2 ... with...
Recording a ~500MW ramp and subsidence in ‘Market Demand’ in South Australia on Saturday 22nd February 2025 (including a drop of 229MW in 5 minutes).
Some recent questions prompted this more granular look at NEM Mainland Frequency on Thursday afternoon 13th February 2025
Here's a first look at (generating lots of questions about) Hamilton Solar Farm, and particularly the Availability forecast, back on Wednesday 12th February 2025.
A second article for Thursday 20th February 2025 looking at a noticeable jump in 'Market Demand' in NSW
A short (and perhaps cryptic, or perhaps useful) initial look at some (what might appear to some) 'rogue' price forecasts in P5 predispatch for the NSW region on Thursday 20th February 2025.
Two weeks after the AER published its updated Compliance Bulletin (and Compliance Checklist) for Semi-Scheduled units, we've finally found time to note about it.
Prompted by a question by a client in a training session for a new ez2view user, guest author Allan O'Neil has written 2,940 words to explain the price outcome in one particular dispatch interval...
About 150 minutes after the earlier (apparent) drop in NSW 'Market Demand' there's a second drop that's not quite so big, but still sizeable.
Oliver Nunn from Endgame Economics argues that we must begin to think about the distribution of prices in the NEM as a function of weather.
Alice Matthews examines how approval times for renewables vary widely by state and technology — with NSW wind projects facing the longest delays.
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