ZUGZWANG

Jack Simpson is joined by Endgame analysts Trent Henderson and Rosalita Rosenberg to talk about forecasting in the NEM, why price spikes are so hard to predict, what machine learning and statistics can and can’t do, and what it’s like to bring data science skills in from outside energy.

Jack Simpson, Oliver Nunn and Endgame Director David Scott go inside a trading team to see how the physical, contract and risk desks work, and why a price spike looks very different to each of them, from the contracts locked in years out to the dispatch decisions made on the day.

Jack Simpson and Oliver Nunn are joined by Endgame Director Martin Chow and Russell Pendlebury, General Manager of Regulation and Policy at Energy Networks Australia, to dig into proposed rule changes that would let networks install curbside EV chargers on ordinary suburban power poles, and what it means for equity, network costs and bills.

Jack Simpson and Oliver Nunn are joined by Rakhesh Martyn, founder and CEO of Hachiko, to unpack how battery optimisers actually capture value. 

Jack Simpson, Oliver Nunn and Jabez Wilson discuss modelling philosophy and put it to work on one of the NEM's most contested assets: transmission. 

Note: this episode has some audio quality issues in places. Thanks for bearing with us, the conversation's worth it.

Jack Simpson, Oliver Nunn and Endgame Consultant, Harry McArthur break down our latest modelling on where data centres should be located - and what it means for prices, gas, and the coal fleet along the way.

In the debut episode of the Zugzwang Podcast from Endgame Analytics, Oliver Nunn and Jack Simpson tackle the perception that market modelling is an impenetrable black box. 

Zugzwang: The Market Modelling Podcast the energy sector has been asking for this. Zugzwang is Endgame Analytics' new podcast digging into market modelling, from Oliver Nunn and Jack Simpson. 

The name comes from chess, a position where any move you make leaves you worse off. It's hard to pronounce and a little pretentious, and that's exactly the point.

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