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…

I thought I’d share three interesting pieces of energy-related content that I’ve come across recently. 1. Some incredible footage of the engineering behind a hydro turbine:How the Turbines in the…

If you’ve ever wanted to see the impact that machine learning is having in the energy sector, then I recommend watching this seminar released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory…

Most people know that I’m a huge fan of the Python programming language – while that isn’t going to change, a recent encounter with some researchers at CSIRO has convinced…

A new podcast called Windfall has just launched, covering the engineering, economics, and politics of offshore wind farms in the USA. It is being produced by the Outside/In podcast team, whom I’ve…

One of the amazing things about working in the energy industry is the sheer volume of reasonably well-structured datasets that are available. The real limitation when working with this data…