Energy Explainer

Mar 21

Understanding your electricity bill

Having trouble understanding your electricity bill? Here’s what you need to know to demystify the jargon and make sense of what you’re being charged. They say you get what you...

Feb 21

Ensuring electricity market design creates customer value

As the National Electricity Market transitions to a more decentralised system with a mix of renewable energy generation such as wind and solar, there is concern that the existing market...

Dec 20

Energy impacts: the rise of working from home.

Overall COVID-19 has had minimal impact on peak demand across the National Electricity Market (NEM). At the peak of lockdowns an estimated 4.3 million Australians (Roy Morgan, 2020) were working...

Aug 20

Components of the cost of electricity

Households and small businesses buy electricity from their energy retailer, not directly from the wholesale market. Retailers offer households and small businesses a retail contract or ‘plan’ for supplying electricity....

Aug 20

How the electricity market works

National Electricity Market The National Electricity Market (NEM) is a wholesale electricity market in which generators (like Stanwell) sell electricity and retailers buy it to on-sell to consumers. There are...

Jul 20

Stanwell demonstrates its capability to restore power to the grid in a “trip to house load” exercise

A cold drink straight from the fridge on a summer’s day, waking-up to a heated house on a chilly winters’ morning, charging our smart phones, and expecting the lights to...

Feb 20

Water use at Tarong power stations

While the recent rain has helped replenish some water supplies throughout the South Burnett, we are continuing to implement and investigate several water saving strategies at Tarong power stations. In...

Nov 19

Reliability standard: What is it and does it need to be reviewed?

This week, there has been a lot of commentary about the reliability standard for the National Electricity Market. Reliability is about having sufficient capacity in the system to generate and...

Jul 19

Negative prices: how they occur, what they mean

Prices in the wholesale electricity market are determined by supply and demand. Energy generators offer to supply the market with specific amounts of electricity at particular prices. The Australian Energy...

Jun 19

Flexibility the key to the future of coal

At Stanwell, we are always looking at innovative ways to improve the capabilities of our coal-fired power stations to meet consumers’ needs for electricity, both now and into the future....

Sep 18

Watch: How a bid stack works to set prices in the National Electricity Market

The energy market is complicated. With every analogy under the sun, industry-specific terminology and a rapidly changing environment, it’s hard to keep up with how the market works and why...

Sep 18

Watch: The National Electricity Market explained

We own coal and gas fired power stations with a total generating capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts. We use our assets in Queensland to generate reliable, affordable and on-demand electricity,...

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