A short note following the AER announcement (Tue 4th Feb 2025) that ‘Callide Power Trading penalised $9 million for not meeting performance standards’.
Prompted by a reader (and an ABC article) we take a look at Berrybank 1 & 2 Wind Farm following the turbine tower collapse on Tuesday 4th February...
A fourth update in what's visible in the market data about Industrial Action at Gladstone Power Station
Friday 31st January 2025 (appeared to) experienced a very large drop in demand in NSW in a single dispatch interval - but we're now suspecting some form of...
A short record of spot price volatility in NSW on Tuesday afternoon 4th February 2025.
With all 6 x Gladstone units expected to be offline by the end of the day due to Industrial Action, very timely that AEMO MN124047 notifies the market...
After a pretty remarkable evening (on Monday 3rd February 2025) here's some statistics in terms of how today's peak demand levels rate in comparison with the most recent...
A quick mid-afternoon article with a snapshot from NEMwatch at 14:55 (NEM time) to highlight the current status.
A summary of the current extreme weather being experienced in North Queensland, and related impacts we've seen on electricity demand, generation and the transmission network in the area.
Taking a second look at the (apparent) large drop in NSW 'Market Demand' on Friday afternoon 31st January 2025. Was it a data glitch instead?
In his first guest authored article on WattClarity, Jack Fox reports some initial observations from a review of the Non Financial Obligation (NFO) data that's been published since
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...
Marcelle explores the little-understood concept in NEM dispatch of the tie-break principle, using the new 'Constraint Dashboard' widget in ez2view.
Next Tuesday 5th April 2022 the Smart Energy Council has organised us to provide a briefing on GenInsights21, and what we can learn from this to inform the...
We're please to note that the Generator Statistical Digest 2021 (a.k.a. GSD2021) is available to clients from Monday 28th March 2022.
AEMO recently imposed additional dispatch obligations on six non-scheduled wind farms in South Australia. We take a look at what this means in practice.
Following from the release of GenInsights21, in this article we look at some of what that analytical publication can help us understand, in terms of how the changing...
On Tuesday 21st December 2021 the AER requested the AEMC to consider changing the prescriptive requirements in the Rules for the AER to analyse particular types of market...
It's Wednesday 15th December 2021 and we have released GenInsights21 (a deep dive exploration, asking what history can tell us of the challenges and requirements of the accelerating...
Following from some analytical work performed in testing for Five Minute Settlement, here's a view of latency of rebids (all DUIDs, all commodities) in recent months that prompts...