A series of articles tagged with ‘automated bidding’.
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, goes into some detail of exploring the various factors contributing to the price volatility in South Australia that bookended the night of Sunday 21th June into Monday 22nd June 2026.
I assume a number of different stakeholders* are conducting their own retrospectives of large-scale** battery operations in South Australia over the recent windless (and quite volatile) days. Here's some questions.
Based on her presentation at All-Energy last week, Ellise Janetzki from Overwatch Energy shares some insights about asset control room requirements and operations.
Declan Kelly from Flow Power follows up an earlier article discussing the impacts of algorithmic bidding, this time looking at some of the market benefits.
In this guest article, Matt Grover from Fluence draws on operational data and real-world trading experience to unpack how Australia’s grid-scale batteries performed across three June 2025 peak days — and what capabilities belong in a trader’s toolkit to navigate them effectively.
In this guest post, Greg Williams calls for more research into how storage bidding—particularly auto-rebidding—is reshaping price formation and competition as flexible assets take centre stage in the NEM.
Paul Moore of Viotas look at recent supply-demand dynamics within the contingency FCAS markets and whether demand response can play a role.
Matt Grover from Fluence shares insights into the NEM's growing big battery fleet and what it means for the market and their operators. This article follows on from his keynote at the ESS two weeks ago.
Dan provides a brief write-up of his notes from attending the Australian Energy Storage Summit in Sydney last week.
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 pre-emptive steps that that could be taken to mitigate potential issues.
A case study, drawing heavily on various widgets in ez2view, looking at some large (and unexpected) oscillations in output at Darlington Point Solar Farm through a ~2 hour period on Thursday 29th August 2024.
Following on from earlier articles about price volatility on Tue 30th July 2024 (particularly in South Australia), guest author Allan O'Neil takes a closer look at the operation of battery units in South Australia.
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, takes us several steps further in understanding the events in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024 - especially with respect to VRE (wind and solar) production.
Walking through some of the responses I can see in 19 of 67 Wind Farm units on Wednesday 10th August 2022 ... when a software glitch delivered extreme contingency FCAS prices across all regions (though they were subsequently revised down).
On Thursday 17th March, Jonathon Dyson presented at the CEC Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne about the increasing role of auto-bidding and self-forecasting in the modern-day NEM. In this article, he shares some of the key points from that presentation.
Following the article on Tuesday 15th February about 'blow-out in file creation latency', in this article we update stats for the past week ... but also look as far back as late 2018 to see a broader pattern.
This morning I've taken a quick look at market activity in South Australia on Thursday evening, 30th December 2021.
A short article today, to share an image from the upcoming GenInsights21 release, and to pose some questions - about what's been happening with the rise (and fall!) of bid volumes at Large Solar Farms in the NEM.
A trend of monthly total number of bids shows clear indication of 'the rise of the auto-bidder'.
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 a number of questions...