As our 21st year of operations (i.e. the year 2020) draws to a close, what a year it has been … both internally and externally. In the quietness before activity picks up again next week, I thought it would be of value compiling this reflection on (some of) the highlights.
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. …
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…
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…
In an effort to talk around last week’s power blackout in South Australia to a wider audience, The Australian published a number of infographics on pg. 6 of their daily edition on Thursday, the 18th of October, 2016. Included was an artistic reproduction of a snapshot taken from our NEM-Watch Widget from 4pm the previous day –…
One of our team members was surprised, last night (i.e. Friday 3rd June 2016) to see an old image of an old version of NEM-Watch (from way back in 2007) used to illustrate how Tasmania would normally be interconnected to the mainland by the sub-sea HVDC (high-voltage direct current) link connecting into the Latrobe Valley in Victoria….
After fielding a number of questions relating to wind farm production in South Australia over a two week period – our CEO, Paul McArdle took to WattClarity to help make the complexity of the situation understandable to many interested (and confused) onlookers. To illustrate the yin and yang of wind over a 4-day period for broader…
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