Back on Friday 18th October we’d asked some questions about generation sources in and around Broken Hill, given the outage.
We’d also seen Giles Parkinson ask ‘Broken Hill has a wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery. So, why are the lights out?’ yesterday
… Giles’ article provides some useful context
So you’ll understand that it was welcome news to see the battery start charging this afternoon (Saturday 26th October 2024 at 15:41 NEM time) as captured in email alerts triggered from the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view as shown here:
… but note that (as at 19:19 NEM time) we’ve not yet seen any discharge this evening (… yet?). This is shown in this updated trend chart from the ‘Trends Engine’ within ez2view here:
This was flagged earlier today in this update from Energy MInister, Penny Sharpe, via LinkedIn:
I’ve highlighted the two particular updates that jumped out to me in the above.
As a comment added to that note, the Minister pointed to this page on the Department’s website, which currently reads as follows:
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