Trended bids (and production) from gas-fired generation over the past 90 days
A short article looking back 90 days at production volumes, and bid prices, from gas-fired generation.
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Kogan Creek back online, late Friday 21st June 2024
Worth noting that on Friday evening 21st June 2024 Kogan Creek came back online, ~36 hours after it had come offline.
Tarong unit 3 comes offline late Friday afternoon 21st June 2024 – appears not planned in advance
Tarong unit 3 came offline late Friday afternoon 21st June 2024 ... we take a quick first look
Callide C4 return to service pushed back 3 weeks, now slated for late July 2024
A glance at our generator outages widget shows a further three week delay to the expected RTS of Callide Unit C4.
Barron Gorge Unit 2 gets a run, on Friday 21st June 2024
On Friday 21st June 2024 the unit 2 of Barron Gorge hydro facility has started up - the next step in a repair process following TC Jasper six months ago.
190 minutes of low IRPM (reaching 11.01% at 18:05) on Thursday evening 20th June 2024
A brief recap on another consecutive evening of low NEM-wide IRPM - on Thursday 20th June 2024.
A look at where the wind has and hasn’t been blowing over the last three nights
A look into the geographic spread and diversity of wind production over the past three evenings, where we've seen supply-demand tightness across the NEM.
Kogan Creek comes offline, on Thursday 20th June 2024
Amongst other things happening in the past 24 hours, the large Kogan Creek coal-fired power station in southern QLD came offline this morning in an outage that appears anticipated two days prior ... but...
A brief review of the (only!) 88MW of wind output NEM-wide at 13:20 on Thursday 13th June 2024
In an earlier article today, we identified the 13:20 dispatch interval on Thursday 13th June 2024 was one with very, very low level of wind ... in this short article we take a very...
Correlation between low wind Capacity Factor and low IRPM (NEM-wide) in recent evenings + Thursday evening looks likely to be low, as well.
Given what's happened for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening this week (and even tighter supply-demand balance forecast for Thursday evening) we take a look at the correlation between low IRPM and low Capacity Factor...
Guest Authored Posts
The increasingly stochastic and volatile NEM
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.
Not all renewable projects are created equal: Why approval times vary dramatically across Australia
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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