Further Reading
AEMO implements the National Electricity Rules (NER) written by the Australian Energy Market Commission. These rules are available here.
To know when old generators closed down, see here and here.
To know about new generators and storage being built in the future, see NEM Generation Information Apr 2026.xlsx.
For assumptions about costs (e.g. LCOE), scenarios and AEMO's long term plan, see the Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Watt Clarity is a blog by a market consultant (Global Roam). They have:
- explainers for concepts such as "how is the price set?", "what is FCAS?" (example),
- analysis of market trends and policies,
- autopsies of specific events (e.g. "what happened last Tuesday?")
Whilst they are a business trying to sell consulting services and market reports, I find the free content on their site to be very high quality, useful and unbiased.
The benefits of Parquet over CSV are described in R for Data Science. (Apache Arrow has similar benefits.)
If you need help with this data, you can try asking on the Nemosis mailing list.