Touring a Californian Wind Farm
I had a fantastic time touring the wind farms at Palm Springs in California today. It was fascinating to see the evolution of this technology from the 80s when they
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Solving the knapsack problem with Python and Gurobi
During my PyCon presentation on Mathematical optimisation, I used the example of the knapsack problem to walk people through the structure of a linear program. I ve had a number of
Resources to learn mathematical optimisation
When I was at PyCon, I had a number of people ask me what resources they could use to to learn more about mathematical optimisation. I thought I d share my
PyCon: why data scientists should learn mathematical optimisation
In November I was fortunate to have the opportunity to present at PyCon AU in Melbourne, Australia. I was really excited to give a talk about why data scientists should
Exploring the impact of constraints on a solar farm in the National Electricity Market
Earlier this week I came across an article about how New England Solar was planning to sell off its solar farms in Australia due to the impact of network congestion:
Optimisation and Energy Modelling Talks From JuliaCon 2021
Since the energy sector is full of optimisation problems, I thought I d share some talks from JuliaCon 2021 that touch on the topic. Modelling Australia’s National Electricity Market with JuMP
How does AEMO predict demand in the National Electricity Market?
Every 5 minutes, AEMO will dispatch generators across the National Electricity Market (NEM) in order to meet demand. To achieve this, AEMO needs to predict what demand will look like
Big Battery Bidding and Rebidding!
In the National Electricity Market (NEM), power stations can bid in their availability in 10 different pricing tranches. They re able to rebid this availability right up until dispatch is run.
How does a gigawatt of renewables disappear?
One of the fun things about playing with hundreds of millions of rows of energy market data is that you can just go hunting through it for interesting anomalies. I
Virtual power plants, Texas ‘big freeze’ event, and grid visualisation tips video
Here s a few interesting pieces of energy-related content I ve come across this week. 1. SolarQuotes have put up a video about their experience participating in a virtual power plant. In