Is the NEM a winter or a summer peaking market? Australian summers are hot, so summer, right? Right? Well, it’s not quite so simple. Let’s look at each of the five regions in the NEM, explored in the glorious Neapolitan palette of the Grand Budapest Hotel. 1. These...
The traditional view of the electricity supply chain is something like: Generators → Transmission & Distribution → Retailers → Consumers. Every other participant in the supply chain, including consumers (as ‘prosumers’), are involved in the physical...
Nudged along by Anthony Seipolt’s post on AGL Australia offering a new retail tariff incentivising residential customers to turn off their solar systems in return for some cash (importantly, more cash than they’d otherwise get from their feed in tariff),...
TL;DR Jump to the results to see which C&I load shapes will be eligible* to play in the new Wholesale Demand Response market. Upload your site interval data and we’ll run it through the Gridcognition software (for free!) and tell you whether you’re likely to...
For energy market enthusiasts, October 2021 is a date in the calendar worth circling. We’ll see the introduction of two significant rule changes into the National Electricity Market (NEM) on Australia’s east coast. October 1 sees the start of 5-minute settlement...
This week Australia’s Energy Security Board released its Post-2025 Market Design Options Paper. The paper proposes pathways and reform options to meet four key areas of need for Australia’s future energy system: Resource adequacy through the transition...
