In part because I'm speaking at the NEMDev conference (Wed 8th Oct 2025 in Brisbane) we're taking a pass through the draft Report of the Nelson Review. Some (more realistic than earlier Reviews) statements...
Here's three high-level questions we've been trying to keep in mind, in our reading of the draft Report of the Nelson Review panel - for some belated (informal) submissions here on WattClarity.
I thought it would be useful to pull together this (incomplete) tabulated list of major reviews in the history of the NEM.
On Monday 29th September 2025 the AEMO alerted of possible MSL1 for the coming weekend (Sat 4th October and Sunday 5th October) in Victoria.
On LinkedIn someone wrote about the QLD price dropping to the Market Price Floor for the 10:05 and 10:10 dispatch interval today (Mon 29th Sept 2025). So I had a quick look
Late on Thursday 25th September 2025, the expected start of the short-notice outage at ER03 was pushed back again (this time by a week).
An article in the print version of the AFR this morning (asking more question about the achievability of the closure of Eraring in 2027) prompts some more head scratching.
It was the RenewEconomy article some weeks ago that initially drew our attention to this White Paper ‘The Role of Grid-Forming Inverters in Providing Inertia (in the NEM)’ from Tesla Energy - but we...
In part two of this four part series about the success of the CIS so far, we explore why delivery challenges may have emerged.
Recent debate has centred on the CIS’s success so far. In part one of this four-part series, we look at how projects have progressed since being awarded a contract.
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.
In part two of this four part series about the success of the CIS so far, we explore why delivery challenges may have emerged.
Recent debate has centred on the CIS’s success so far. In part one of this four-part series, we look at how projects have progressed since being awarded a contract.
Prompted by a presentation from CleanCo’s Rimu Nelson at the Queensland Energy Summit, Dan examines how operational and bidding patterns at Wivenhoe and Swanbank E have evolved since CleanCo assumed control in 2019.
In this article, we tie together various events since 1st January 2024 that featured either System Frequency outside the NOFB and large AggROT for Semi-Scheduled assets.
Earlier today we trended the incidence of large Aggregate Raw Off-Target across all Semi-Scheduled units. In this updated tabulated list, we list each of the largest instances from January 2024 to June 2025.
Categories with a longer bar left of zero are losing more of their spot energy market revenue to regulation and PFR costs.
An agreement restraining how Basslink is bid into the energy market has ended, resulting in changes in bidding and energy flows.
An initial review of payment and cost outcomes of the first 44 days of financial operation of the FPP arrangements.