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…

One of my favourite data science resources is the mini-episode series of the Data Skeptic podcast. These short episodes would feature the host explaining a data science concept to a…

On the 25th of May, an explosion and fire at Callide Power Station initiated a series of events that culminated in blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands of Queenslanders. The figure…