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Your solar farm has been running smoothly for five years. High-speed meters are recording gigabytes of data every month. No one's looking at it. Then AEMO calls: "We've identified an oscillatory instability event at your connection point on 16 April 2026, at 0321 NEM time. We believe your plant is not damping the oscillations and could be non-compliant with NER Cl. S5.2.5.10. You have 5 business days to provide your assessment." The scramble begins. Someone needs to access th

Managing GPS compliance for one renewable asset is hard. Managing ten across solar, wind, BESS and hybrid is exponentially harder — and in-house tools rarely keep up as portfolios grow, change hands, and diversify. Each project carries different metering, SCADA, and registered GPS. COMET gives asset owners one dashboard, one system of record, and one answer: which plant needs attention today?

Where continuous monitoring is in place, the AEMC now supports extended intervals between active compliance tests.

A firmware update can fundamentally alter a battery's frequency response or a wind farm's voltage control - without any physical changes. Yet many Generator Compliance Plans (GCP) barely address software change management. Modern IBR plant is increasingly software-defined. What's impossible for synchronous plant - changing performance characteristics without hardware modifications - is routine for inverters. Software & firmware changes affecting GPS compliance should be verif

VeriConneX has just lodged a submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) Reliability Panel's issues paper for the Template for Compliance Programs. https://www.aemc.gov.au/market-reviews-advice/compliance-template-review-2026 The current template was designed during a time when the generation mix looked very different. The Panel's issues paper recognises we're now connecting integrated resource systems (batteries), synchronous condensers, and registered lo

When a GPS breach becomes a reportable incident, the damage is already done—to your operations, your reputation, and potentially your bottom line. Traditional compliance approaches wait for problems to surface. Manual reviews happen weeks or months after events. By then, you're managing consequences, not preventing them. COMET transforms GPS compliance from reactive to proactive. Our platform continuously monitors your plant performance, identifying potential non-compliance b

Too many asset owners discover GPS non-compliance only when something goes badly wrong, or during AEMO audits. With AER enforcement as a 2024-25 priority and civil penalties reaching $10M, the regulator has been explicit: "reactive or ex-post assessments cannot be solely relied upon." Modern technologies now enable moving grid compliance from once every 24 months to once every 24 hours—at comparable or lower cost. The question isn't whether to implement robust compliance prog

After monitoring 3GW+ across Australia, we strongly believe that effective GPS compliance programs rest on four pillars: 1. Monitoring – Continuous automated performance tracking. Catches issues early. 2. Testing – Validates edge conditions. Essential, but complementary to monitoring. 3. Modelling – Periodic validation that models match reality. Critical for investigations. 4. Reporting – Proactive status updates, not reactive record-keeping. A testing-centric framework no lo

Received a NSP compliance notice for exceeding harmonic emissions? This is becoming more common as NSPs refocus on ensuring planning limits are maintained. The issue: measurements include background emissions from the grid itself—not just your plant. Standard practice excludes background emissions measured prior to commissioning (HP0). But the grid is evolving. Network changes and new inverter-based resources have changed the harmonic signature since you first connected... p

The Iberian grid took 27 seconds to collapse last April. Some generators disconnected before voltage thresholds were even breached. We're deploying technology faster than we can learn from it. Generator behaviour is now software-defined—changeable via a firmware update—yet verification of actual performance during real grid stress remains limited. The gap between planning assumptions and operational reality keeps widening. And we're all acting surprised when the next disturba

AEMO just mapped out Australia's grid future. The compliance implications are significant. Their 2025 System Security Transition Plan confirms what many of us have been observing: the way we're thinking about grid operation is changing in real-time. Three insights that matter for renewable asset owners: System complexity is accelerating – As synchronous generation retires, technical performance requirements for inverter-based resources are becoming more stringent and more scr

Every asset manager has asked their grid team this question. And the answer usually involves: - "Let me check..." - "We are very busy right now..." - "I'll need to pull the data..." - "Give me a few days..." Because traditional compliance m onitoring is manual, time-consuming, and always playing catch-up. COMET was built to change that conversation. Our platform gives you immediate answers. Not because we've created magic—but because we've automated what used to take days: 🔍

“We have a testing regimen in place in line with our GCP – why do we need to monitor?” Because the AER says you have to. Under NER Clause S 5.2.5.13 , generating systems must maintain automatic voltage and reactive power control capabilities. Field testing validates compliance at a point in time but, when we’re using technologies which can have their performance changed through the click of a button, what is the plant doing the rest of the time? We see this all the time. Over