In the National Electricity Market (NEM), power stations can bid in their availability in 10 different pricing tranches. They’re able to rebid this availability right up until dispatch is run.…

One of the fun things about playing with hundreds of millions of rows of energy market data is that you can just go hunting through it for interesting anomalies. I…

Here’s a few interesting pieces of energy-related content I’ve come across this week. 1. SolarQuotes have put up a video about their experience participating in a virtual power plant. In…

Sometimes when you work on large projects, you can end up with code that looks like this: Now, what does the 15 mean? Well, I’m sure you would have known…

I’ve written this article as a guide to the different reliability forecasts that AEMO undertakes in the National Electricity Market (NEM). These forecasts help AEMO identify supply shortfalls, and plan…

The reliability standard is the threshold used to determine whether there will be enough future capacity in the National Electricity Market (NEM) to meet demand. A breach of the standard…

Lately I’ve been working with AEMO’s 4-second interval data from the National Electricity Market (NEM). Visualising the grid at this resolution is so fascinating, and I wanted to share a…

Commencing in 2019, the Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) requires energy retailers (plus some large energy users) to support reliability in the National Electricity Market (NEM) by holding contracts or investing…

I thought I’d share a few interesting presentations released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). 1. A presentation outlining four phases of energy storage deployment, where storage provides: Operating…

The Australian Energy Regulator has just released their State of the energy market 2021 report – there’s a lot of content in it, so I’ve tried to summarise a few…