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.

🔌💡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...

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.

💡🔌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

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

💡🔌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...

💡🔌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...

Launching Fixim Sola: Empowering Vanuatu's remote communities through solar repair training YouTube video by Business Partnerships Platform

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

Funding eight new grant projects | Energy Consumers Australia

🔌💡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...

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.

🔌💡 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...

🔌💡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...

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...

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...

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)

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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…

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…

📣 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..)

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"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."

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…

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... 🔌💡

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...

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

💡🔌 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

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…

🔌💡 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...

“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!

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.

☀️ 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...

🌟 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

CICCADA to unlock insights of consumer energy The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $1.7 million in funding for UNSW’s Project CICCADA to better understand the integration of consumer energy resources (CER) into the N...

Read the ARENA release here: arena.gov.au/news/ciccada...

“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

RACE for 2030 on LinkedIn: You are invited to a knowledge-sharing webinar about the SolarShift… You are invited to a knowledge-sharing webinar about the SolarShift project. Hear from UNSW researchers and discover what findings have emerged from the…

…and you can find out more at this webinar: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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.

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...

Hi Iain, please add the legend @sunjam.bsky.social