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...
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...
There’s a healthy debate underway in the energy sector around where battery energy storage assets should be located within electricity systems, in order to create the greatest possible value, both for their owners and for society more broadly. As a general rule, the...
Going toe-to-toe with the US election for media attention, this week saw the announcement of another huge battery storage project for Australia. Imaginatively dubbed the Victorian ‘Big Battery’, the project, which is to be located near Geelong in Victoria...
