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

“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