VNI West selected path; an incentive for delaying…
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Spot the spread: Are current battery revenues enough…
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Feast or famine? FCAS costs in South Australia
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NSW’s transition to a new era: What will…
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VNI West selected path; an incentive for delaying coal retirements?
On 29 May 2023, AEMO published a conclusions report on the VNI West Project. According to the report, option 5A (a variant of AEMO’s preferred option in a previous consultation paper) is preferred for VNI West. In option 5A, the transmission line crosses the Murray River north of Kerang (Wamba…
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Opportunities from integrated energy solutions
Anna Moss is joined by Cornwall Insight’s Jacob Briggs and Dan Hamza-Goodacre and Sophie Bordat from Integrate to Zero to talk about our recent research into the carbon and cost reduction opportunities from integrated energy in GB. In this podcast, we discuss the current market landscape, opportunities, and barriers to…
Commercial and market outlook
Spot the spread: Are current battery revenues enough to encourage further investment?
In AEMO’s ‘Step Change’ scenario, it was estimated that storage capacity in the NEM would need to increase by a factor of 30 between 2022 and 2050 to support a grid transformation that limits temperature rises below 2 degrees. This represents about 13GW of new storage capacity by 2030 and…
Power and gas networks
Trouble Ahead? – What’s Next For TNUoS Charges?
Some industry participants will be well versed in the Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) charging regime, while others may not have had to engage with it before. Regardless of previous involvement, these charges are becoming increasingly important to understand for reasons we will discuss shortly. In this week’s ‘Chart…
Commercial and market outlook
Feast or famine? FCAS costs in South Australia
Frequency Control Ancillary Service (FCAS) prices are highly volatile, at times resulting in short periods of extremely high FCAS cost. Three such events in recent history are the South Australian (SA) islanding events in November 2019, February 2020, and November 2022. During these events, FCAS costs in SA totalled $16…
Business supply and services
Are Falling Wholesale Energy Prices Good News For The Wider Economy?
A lot has happened in the last year. Challenging trading conditions across the economy have been exacerbated by extremely high energy prices. In this week’s ‘Chart of the week’ we look at the business landscape using trends from a range of economic indicators.
Low carbon generation
NSW’s transition to a new era: What will replace Eraring?
After 52 years of operation, the NSW Liddell power station officially shut down last 28 April. With Liddell’s closure, NSW’s transition to a green energy future is in full swing. First announced in 2015, NSW had seven years to ensure there is enough replacement capacity once Liddell is retired. Since…
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Our consultancy team offer a bespoke research and advisory service. We utilise quantitative analysis, state of the art models and have over two centuries of accumulated market experience.
We provide learning and development across the energy value chain, covering different ability levels. We offer a range of delivery channels to suit all needs from public courses, e-learning and in-house training.
Market intelligence, analysis and regulatory insight covering the full breadth of the energy sector. Delivered via a combination of reports, publications and forums, supported by full digital capability.
Our forums and events provide the opportunity to talk to our experts and hear their thoughts on the latest developments in the market, across renewables, flexibility, energy supply, electric vehicles and financing.
Cornwall Insight was commissioned by Zenobe Energy to undertake network charging analysis. Zenobe design, finance, build and operate battery solutions, and is on track to manage 1GW of grid-connected battery power by 2025. The last decade has seen considerable amounts of battery storage connecting to the grid, with over 1GW clearing at the last Capacity Market auction for delivery in 2025-26. However, network charging regulation has not responded to this development: the last substantial updates to the methodology took place in 2014. This means electricity storage is charged in the same way as gas and coal generation, taking only exports,…
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