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A compact 30-day publication built from durable release records, not a generic news stream.
The strongest common thread is provenance: approved-product baselines, revision labels, forecast boundaries and source vintage are now visible parts of the decision surface rather than footnotes.
This briefing changes as durable releases enter the ledger. Withdrawn and draft records are excluded.
A new brief reads AEMO's ten-year Expected scenario alongside the observed SWIS record without treating forecast capacity, VPP behaviour or demand as measured outcomes.
Decision read: The near-term 347 MW forecast surplus in 2028-29 and the forecast shortfall from 2029-30 are planning scenarios whose delivery and modelling assumptions remain explicit.
The monitored record now holds current Australian module, inverter and battery files plus the California PV module list, with source versions and retrieval times retained.
Decision read: An exact-model absence is now returned only after the required source baseline for that jurisdiction is complete; later source versions generate additions, removals, relistings, expiries and changed-detail events.
Grid Mix now distinguishes provider annual releases, versioned ledger rows and fixed published snapshots, while the methodology names licensed inputs instead of making a blanket public-source claim.
Decision read: Readers can distinguish observation year, publisher status and retrieval date before carrying a figure into another decision or model.
The two recent CER installation windows are retained as recorded cohorts but are no longer interpreted as demand momentum; the 2025 ABS population value is marked preliminary and 2022-2024 revised.
Decision read: The reference edition remains citable while preventing recent STC validation lag or preliminary population estimates from being mistaken for settled market change.
Each Grid Mix Monitor system now has a monthly transition view from 2016, joining Ember generation and carbon-intensity series to a named NASA POWER solar-resource reference point.
Decision read: The monitor can now distinguish a lasting change in market mix from a single bright or dim month, while keeping the boundary clear: reference-point irradiance is not yet a capacity-weighted national solar index.
A new open comparison surface tracks the 2025 annual generation mix, renewable share, solar share and carbon intensity across ten selected electricity systems.
Decision read: The operating context for solar can now be compared across systems without confusing annual national generation with real-time dispatch or every sub-grid within a country.
The first quarterly capture ledger covers all 60 bidirectional batteries registered in the National Electricity Market, with commissioning units flagged separately from full-quarter assets.
Decision read: The gap between a perfect-foresight spread reference and observed energy-only capture is now measurable by region, duration and asset context rather than left as a model assumption.
Solar Analytica begins a dedicated line for the indices, spreads and realised capture that frame storage revenue cases, starting with a transparent NEM battery reference.
Decision read: The research scope now reaches beyond the asset and its resource into the market arrangements that determine what an operating system can actually capture.
The price-times-yield join is now available as an interactive reference across 28 matched markets, sortable by value, sunlight and retail price.
Decision read: It makes the demand side of solar economics visible: retail tariffs move annual grid-offset value far more than the spread in sunlight alone.
The annual synthesis closes the first production-climate series, joining the latest readings for heat, sky conditions, variability, soiling, wind and physical risk.
Decision read: Climate belongs in an operating assumption set, not as a single headline risk: its effects on PV vary materially by location, technology and time horizon.