As Marcelle Gannon approaches her 1st anniversary of working with us, we find that she was featured in the ‘energy@melbourne’ newsletter from the Melbourne Energy Institute.
Over on WattClarity, Paul first noted a growing trend of Queensland region prices dropping below $0/MWh at the end of August, as that trend continued into September more discussion on the topic was published on the site with Allan O’Neil analysing who was responsible for the market phenomenon and how it was influencing bidding behavior. …
After a monster collaborative effort from the team at Global-Roam and Greenview Strategic Consulting, our Generator Report Card was released on May 31st, 2019. A full announcement and purchase instructions are available on WattClarity. The report includes 180 pages of objective detailed analysis and key insights on the past 20 years of generation in the…
On Saturday 25th August 2018, the NEM experienced what has been called by others a “near miss” event, with both Queensland and South Australia being islanded from the rest of the NEM as a result of the tripping of QNI and Heywood interconnectors (respectively). I saw this happened on the day, so had time to…
Over the prior week (Monday 4th June to Friday 8th June 2018), the NSW region – and, to a lesser extent, the broader NEM – experienced a tight supply/demand balance. In response to what was happening during the week, we saw a range of activity ourselves, including: (1) One-on-one questions with clients Our prime focus…
In his article “Rush to renewables as coal cools” in the Australian on Thursday 7th September, Andrew White used a reproduction of the RenewEconomy-sponsored NEM-Watch Fuel Type Widget to help his readers understand the fuel mix that was occurring for one 5-minute period (the 16:30 “dispatch interval”) the previous day. The widget also has been…
Monday 31st July 2017 was a day (one of an increasing number in recent years) when dispatch prices for energy in South Australia dropped below $0/MWh – and, in this case, down to the Market Floor of -$1,000/MWh for the 13:30 dispatch interval. We posted two images from NEM-Watch v10 on WattClarity here, to help…
On Thursday 6th July 2017, I posted this analysis on WattClarity ® about some “off the chart” movements in average prices, and pricing patterns, across all 5 regions of the NEM – but most pronounced in VIC, TAS and SA. This analysis was performed using NEMreview v6. Following from this, we saw the analysis referenced…
On Friday 30th June 2017, I posted this analysis on WattClarity ® about the low levels of aggregate wind production seen across the NEM through June 2017. Matt Chambers, resources reporter at The Australian picked up this article and added additional comments in his article “Lack of wind blows out South Australia power costs” on…
In early February, numerous news websites including the Adelaide Advertiser and the Sydney Morning Herald embedded our NEM-Watch Live Generation Widget (as seen on RenewEconomy) to help explain the generation mix of each state of Australia during the recent heat waves affecting the South Australian and New South Wales electricity network. In addition to the…
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