Plain-language explanations of Australian electricity market concepts. Written for commercial energy buyers, sustainability teams and procurement leads.
How the NEM sets electricity spot prices every 5 minutes, what drives spikes and negative prices, and how commercial buyers can act on the data.
Location-based vs market-based accounting, time-matched calculations, DCCEEW emission factors, and what the ASRS Scope 2 disclosure requirement means in practice.
Seven analytical areas to work through before signing a Power Purchase Agreement: structure, strike price, generator risk, network costs, congestion, indexation and counterparty quality.
How to read an AEMO NEM12 interval metering file: record types, quality flags and the no-daylight-saving timestamp trap that misaligns your data.
The Australian Energy Market Operator explained: the markets it runs across the NEM and WEM, how dispatch works and the data it publishes through NEMWEB.
What REZs are, who designates them through the ISP and state roadmaps and how they shape connection, marginal loss factors and curtailment risk.
How AEMO's Settlement Residue Auction works, what IRSR spreads reveal about congestion on the five NEM interconnectors, and why this data matters for PPA buyers and renewable developers.