On Friday 14th October we saw a significant system event in Tasmania – with storms downing power links, leading to large (530MW) loss of load and trip of Basslink. In this article we take a first look at the sequence of events…
Some quick notes of a sizeable loss of load in Tasmania and a volatility situation that is ongoing as I hit ‘publish’ at 11:50 NEM time.
Third article today about major outages – this one looking at current expectations for RTS for Loy Yang A2 after some apparent slippage.
Spurred by the extended outage at Kogan Creek, we also take a quick look at current expectations for Callide C4.
One of many articles in the AFR this week flagged an extension of major outage on Kogan Creek Power Station. In this article we take a quick initial look.
It’s under 2 weeks since the Queensland Government released its much-awaited Energy Policy. Some reports into the modelling behind this (from EY-ROAM) has been released.
Following the published note of scepticism/concern about the energy transition from several industry CEOs in the AFR on Friday, we take a quick look at the replacement capacity needs just for Loy Yang A power station to illustrate the enormous scale of the challenge.
Reposting a portion of an article we published some years ago, to help readers understand the difference between a MW and a MWh.
A quick initial look at (what appears to be) a strange aberration in the AEMO forecast data, with load shedding briefly forecast in NSW tomorrow morning.
A short article with the Victorian ‘Market Demand’ dropping to new low point for minimum demand on Sunday 2nd October 2022.
It’s taken longer than expected – but today I’ve posted this article that goes some way to answering the question ‘to what extent was solar production disappointing through periods of Q2 2022?’
Also on Thursday 29th September 2022 we had AGL Energy’s ‘earlier than previously stated’ closure announcement for Loy Yang A power station.
Two headline reports (one from the ESB, one from the AER) released today, so readers can consider them together.
In this article we explain a different (and sometimes quite powerful) way of reviewing some performance metrics in relation to the passage of another dimension of time.
On Wednesday 28th September 2022 the Queensland Government has launched its much awaited Energy Policy.
Prompted by a number of different factors in recent times, in this article we explain why assessing a units ‘Installed Capacity’ is significantly more complex than it might initially appear!
A short article on Sunday 25th September 2022 to record some new low points for ‘minimum demand’ in the NSW region, and on a NEMwide basis.
Dan Lee provides some exploratory calculations in order to estimate the total cost of maintaining electricity supply throughout a very turbulent June.
Following a presentation today at ‘Smart Energy Queensland’ here are two slides to start with – illustrating the fuel mix in electricity supplies in the NEM.
James Allan of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners discusses the potential benefits of moving to hourly RECs.