AEMO releases 2025 ESOO on Thursday 21st August 2025
On Thursday 21st August 2025 (a week earlier than I'd anticipated) the AEMO has released its 2025 ESOO.
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AGL considering State Government request to keep Torrens Island open for two more years
Amongst the news articles this morning that are energy related was one noting a possible delay to the closure of Torrens Island. We take a quick look...
Unit deviations from target on Tuesday 19th August 2025
It appears it was unit availability used to set the target for dispatch that went awry, rather than unit output.
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.
A ~50-day view of rising spurts of volatility in the LOWER1SEC FCAS market in South Australia
With Administered Pricing in South Australia ongoing today, we take a longer-term look (across the past ~50 days) in the escalating pressure on Cumulative Price for LOWER1SEC FCAS...
Network outage on Tailem Bend – Tungkillo 275kV line ended Tue 19th Aug, but Administered Pricing Continues into Wed 20th Aug (part 3)
Part 3 in an evolving series of articles about a series of the network outage(s) on the Tailem Bend - Tungkillo 275kV line that's driven LOWER1SEC prices through...
High level view of some contributing factors to 19 August frequency spike
Among other aspects, a large dip in solar UIGF aligns with the frequency deviation observed on 19th August 2025.
Mainland Frequency Spikes to 50.2 on Tue 19th August 2025
On Tuesday the 19th of August between 11:45 and 12:20 there was a significant frequency deviation on the mainland.
Part 2 with respect to Administered Pricing for Lower 1 second FCAS (and 9 other services) in South Australia
With Administered Pricing of all 10 x FCAS products in South Australia continuing into Monday 18th August 2025 (no surprise there), we take a second look.
The ‘2025 Victorian Transmission Plan’ released on Sunday 17th August 2025
On the weekend we noticed the release of the 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan, and thought it worth flagging here.
New ‘lowest ever’ point for ‘Market Demand’ in Queensland, on Sunday 17th August 2025
Another quick article for Sunday 17th August 2025 – this one noting a new 'lowest ever*' point for 'Market Demand' in Queensland, just shaving prior record from a...
Administered pricing for FCAS in South Australia from 05:20 on Sunday 17th August 2025 (part 1)
AEMO notes that 'it has determined that an administered price period will commence at the trading interval starting 0520 on 17 August 2025' for FCAS in South Australia....
A 292MW drop in ‘Market Demand’ in Tasmania, on Saturday 16th August 2025
A quick first look, following the loss of 292MW of 'Market Demand' in Tasmania to 14:11 (NEM time) on Saturday 16th August 2025.
Eraring Power Station in the news, again … might stay open (even) longer
Briefly recapping some of the news pertaining to Eraring Power Station over the past two days.
Submissions due today (Thu 14th Aug 2025) on the AEMC draft report ‘Review of WDRM’
A belated note that the AEMC published a draft report on their review of the (nearly 4 year old) WDRM initiative - and noting that submissions close today.
Turbine availability at Bulgana wind farm
We use the elements available dataset to better understand turbines available at Bulgana in recent months.
Submissions closing tomorrow (Wed 13th Aug 2025) to AEMO consultation on ‘Primary Frequency Response Test Guidelines for Semi-Scheduled Plant’
Worth noting, as I've just become aware, that submissions close tomorrow on AEMO's consultation on Primary Frequency Response (PFR) Test Guidelines for Semi-Scheduled Plant
Basslink flows over the past 18 days
Earlier today we posted an article about Tamar Valley CCGT getting a run. We should also have noted about Basslink flows, which we have done here.
Tamar Valley CCGT gets a run (late Monday 11th August 2025)
Monday evening 11th Aug 2025 a ‘unit start’ alert in the ‘Notifications’ widget of ez2view with respect to the TVCC201 unit triggered. We take a look.
Commencement of (testing) operations at Hunter (Kurri Kurri) GT in NSW
We saw first output from the HUNTER1 unit (the first of two at Snowy Hydro's new peaker) on Sunday 27th July 2025. So we're looking a little further,...