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Comparing Contingency Frequency Control Markets in Australia and the UK
In a recent blog post, we compared the financial case for installing solar (and optionally battery storage) to a supermarket in Australia versus the UK. That analysis only considered using the solar generation and battery storage to reduce spend on energy imported...
Meet Gridcognition’s new Senior Data Scientist, Joe Wyndham.
Gridcognition recently hired a new Senior Data Scientist. Joe Wyndham has joined us from University of Technology in Sydney where he is currently completing his PhD in Sustainable Futures (Digital Grid Transformation). At Gridcognition, he has been busy working on our...
Is London a better investment for solar than Sydney?
Following my trip to the UK earlier this month I was struck by a couple of things related to solar PV investment. One was the weather; London turned on the sunshine big time. The other was the current trend in the UK energy market to dumb down price signals to energy...
DER Orchestration in the WEM
Western Australia is a global hotspot for high-penetration of distributed generation in the electricity system, and the Government proactively defined a roadmap for DER integration and orchestration in early 2020. In line with the roadmap, Government has recently...
Connecting to MongoDB Atlas in Lambdas with IAM Roles
In this blog post I will walk through how you connect secrurely to MongoDB Atlas with AWS Lambdas through IAM roles. Dilemma of Integrations Integrations are surprisingly hard to do, nothing is more frustrating than spending hours trying to implement something with...
Battery Storage in a NEM with no Spot market
The National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia is in disarray this week. What does this mean for Battery Storage? The situation started when extreme events in the NEM lead to prices being capped at $300/MWh in all NEM mainland regions on Monday 13 June. This led...