In October 2023, the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) in Western Australia introduced a real-time inertia market called the RoCoF Control Service (RCS). While the name of the service suggests broader possibilities, the current WEM rules define inertia as “the kinetic energy (at nominal frequency) that is extracted from the rotating mass of a machine coupled […]
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WEM Quarterly Market Review – Q1 2024
This report presents an independent review of market outcomes from Western Australia’s Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) in Q1 2024. Download the full report (PDF, 4.7 MB) See also the RenewEconomy article covering the report (8 April 2024). The material contained in the review is based entirely on publicly available data and is intended to complement […]