🔌💡New AFR piece digs into record wind + solar curtailment across the NEM — featuring analysis from CEEM’s @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social www.afr.com/policy/energ... For more on the complexities of curtailment (it's not all bad!), see Dylan’s previous explainer: theconversation.com/should-we-wo...

Large-scale wind and solar wasting record amounts of power

Australia’s big wind and solar farms are generating more power than ever, but not all of it can be used, raising concerns about investment in renewables.

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💡🔌It was great to see SunSPOT highlighted as a "great example of taking a complex process and cost exercise and making it as simple and clear as possible for people" in DCCEEW's Insights and Opportunities Report from the CER Taskforce: www.energy.gov.au/sites/defaul... SunSPOT: www.sunspot.org.au

Solar and battery calculator | Solar Savings | SunSPOT, Australia

SunSPOT | Solar and Battery Calculator estimates your system size, the cost, and how much you’ll save, privately and simply.

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💡🔌A new article from Ben Potter explores curtailment of renewable generation in the NEM with the help of CEEM's Dylan McConnell and some illuminating charts, as spring rolls on and curtailment reaches new peaks. ☀️ 🔗 Check out the full piece here: theenergy.co/article/lear...

Learning to live with curtailment

Rising curtailment is playing havoc with the economics of new wind and solar projects

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💡🔌We're hiring! CEEM has two new research positions open for an exciting CER research project. We're looking for bright data scientists, engineers and researchers with experience in CER modelling and integration. Sound like you or someone you know? external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

💡🔌 A new report from the Energy Efficiency Council with authors Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper and CEEM's @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social dives into the demand-side, exploring what's needed to effectively and meaningfully integrate demand-side resources into the NEM. Full report: www.eec.org.au/uploads/Proj...

A short film from the launch of the Fixim Sola vocational training program on off-grid solar repair in #Vanuatu. 48 participants from Tafea province (5 islands) took part in a 2-week program that covered the fundamentals of #solar + how to perform basic maintenance and #repair operations

Launching Fixim Sola: Empowering Vanuatu's remote communities through solar repair training

YouTube video by Business Partnerships Platform

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🔌💡We're excited to receive funding from ECA for our project "Information needs for consumer electrification". The project will explore the information needs of consumers who are electrifying and develop resources to provide tailored information: 🔗 energyconsumersaustralia.com.au/news/funding...

Funding eight new grant projects | Energy Consumers Australia

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🔌💡 A few weeks ago some of our team ran a panel on “Open-Source Energy Modelling in Australia – Building Tools, Capacity, and Collaboration” at SoERC 2025. If you have thoughts, opinions or experiences in this space, we'd love to hear them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open-Source Energy Modelling in Australia – Building Tools, Capacity, and Collaboration

Follow up from panel session on open-source energy modelling at the State of Energy Research Conference 2025.

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🔌💡Check out upcoming short course lead by CEEM's Baran Yildiz, held by AGSE UNSW and ERICA as part of SoERC 2025. The course covers operations, integration, and governance of CER in the NEM. More details: lnkd.in/gfK97fav 🗓️ 14/06/2025, 10am-4pm 📍UNSW Kensington Campus 👉 Register: lnkd.in/g_W9Ef6t

🔌💡 Excited to share that CEEM's Anna Bruce, @miker66.bsky.social and Simon Heslop are involved with a new RACE for 2030 project around realising retrofit opportunities for apartment buildings! Learn more: www.racefor2030.com.au/project/real...

With contributions from CEEM's @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social alongside awesome data visuals this ABC Climate article explains the NEM, the history and progress of our energy transition, and the challenges facing us now in a perfect pre-election read: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... 🔌💡

What might our future power grid look like? This illustrated guide explains

Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a gri...

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Here's bit of an explainer I was involved in on how the NEM works, and the energy transition unfolding within it. (..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear) 🔌💡 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

What might our future power grid look like? This illustrated guide explains

Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a gri...

abc.net.au

Our team at @ceemunsw.bsky.social have a new article on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia. This research examined diverse stakeholder perspectives on this emerging form of RE procurement, including its scope for decarbonising electricity in Australia #research

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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📣 New paper from @shanilsam.bsky.social, @miker66.bsky.social, and other colleagues at @ceemunsw.bsky.social on perspectives of 24/7 "real time" RE procurement in Au! (tl;dr: will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia..) 🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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"While we found interest in 24/7 CFE among some sophisticated buyers and the emerging green hydrogen sector, we argue that 24/7 CFE contracting will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia's electricity sector."

Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)@ceemunsw.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper from CEEM researchers exploring stakeholder perspectives on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia has just been published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

New paper from CEEM researchers exploring stakeholder perspectives on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia has just been published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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CEEM’s @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social with some analysis of the energy policy choices facing Australians at the election 🔌💡

Your Say: Election Forum

The ABC will delve deep into the issues Australians care about most in the lead up to the federal election across a series of national Your Say Forums, breaking down the issues, questions and concerns...

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💡🔌 The final report for #SolarShift, a RACE for 2030 project exploring domestic electric hot water heating's "thermal battery" potential, is now public! Read the report here: lnkd.in/g2C5KJN2 Open-source thermal modelling repo: lnkd.in/gcSVxeEV

Call for abstracts from CEEM's growing group of energy social researchers

Mike Roberts@miker66.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to be co-hosting an online / hybrid session on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social, @shanilsam.bsky.social & @rex-martin.bsky.social of @ceemunsw.bsky.social 1/

🔌💡 New open-access paper out exploring historical pre-dispatch price forecasts and the role of centralised price forecasts for scheduling energy storage in the #NEM, from Abhijith Prakash, Anna Bruce and Iain MacGill. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The scheduling role of future pricing information in electricity markets with rising deployments of energy storage: An Australian National Electricity Market case study

In wholesale electricity markets, resource schedules result from market participant decisions informed by knowledge processes, which provide current a…

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“For example, labelling people as 'consumers' or 'customers' confines our approach to market-based interactions, while focusing solely on 'costs' as tariffs or prices overlooks other important considerations such as time, energy, and environmental impacts.” 👏👏👏

"The projections assume the Australian Government's 82 per cent renewable electricity generation target for on-grid electricity is met by 2030." Phrased differently: the projections show we are on to meet the target, because we assume the target will be met!

Michael Slezak@mikeyslezak.bsky.social · 2y ago

5. Now for the projections... Labor's 2030 target will me met mostly by cuts in the electricity sector. But you need to read the projections with caution. They actually simply *assume* that the cuts are made, and pop them on the chart. (Also, those cuts peter out after 2030.)

☀️ Got rooftop solar in Australia? Avoid #curtailment and maximise #savings by using your solar energy at home! Energy experts @miker66.bsky.social, Baran Yildiz, Dani Alexander and Michelle Vaqueiro-Contreras from UNSW wrote this great article to show you how: theconversation.com/these-3-simp...

These 3 simple actions can save you money and help make the most of your rooftop solar

Even small actions, such as choosing the right rooftop solar set-up or changing when we use energy, can make a big difference.

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🌟 We're hiring! 🌟 We have two exciting opportunities to join CEEM as a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate. In these roles, you’ll be joining a team exploring CER operations, compliance and curtailment in the NEM through data analysis and open-source tool development. lnkd.in/gdT87YSp

“We need ongoing evidence-based and data-driven research to improve our understanding of CER operations in real-world conditions”, says CEEM's Dr. Baran Yildiz, leading new ARENA-funded project CICCADA which will share key insights on CER compliance and curtailment from real-world data 🔌💡 #energysky

This research is eye poppingly interesting. Using hot water heaters to balance the grid, switching night to day

Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)@ceemunsw.bsky.social · 2y ago

New research from CEEM’s Baran Yildiz and Hossein Saberi on the potential of electric hot water systems for balancing the grid 🔌💡 #energysky theconversation.com/if-our-hot-w...

New research from CEEM’s Baran Yildiz and Hossein Saberi on the potential of electric hot water systems for balancing the grid 🔌💡 #energysky theconversation.com/if-our-hot-w...

If our hot water heaters ran off daytime solar, we would slash emissions and soak up cheap energy

Your electric water heater uses a lot of electricity overnight. Shifting it to soak up solar could be a win-win.

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.. 7GW of curtailment is quite a lot really 🔌💡 (Demand in the NEM was around 14GW at the time..)

Here is one of our brown coal plants being all reliable and what not today 🔌💡:

Recent (open access) paper from CEEM's Abi Prakash and Sophie Adams looking at the shifting approach to dealing with climate risk and the many meanings of "resilience" and implications for climate change adaptation in the Australian electricity sector. #EnergySky 🔌💡 doi.org/10.1016/j.er...