The Weekly Dispatch: Retirement reset

In this Weekly Dispatch:

  1. AEMO released an update to the ESOO, modelling significant reliability risks for NSW, VIC and SA.
  2. The NSW government announces a 2-year extension to Eraring Power Station.
  3. Florence – the tunnel boring machine for Snowy 2.0 – is stuck (again) but in hard rock.
  4. The CSIRO releases an update to their GenCost report including large-scale nuclear costs for the first time.
  5. The AER released the final determination on the Default Market Offer price for 2024-2025.
  6. Podcast of the week: The Catalyst chats about California’s decline in solar PV after the state Public Utilities Commission decreased feed-in-tariffs and the role of batteries.
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