Planned network outage on Line 17 (Avon to Macarthur) commences on Wednesday morning 18th December 2024, as per the (deferred) plan

Recall that the ‘N-X_AVMA_KCTX’ constraint set:

• was very topical in relation to the AEMO’s earlier warnings of forecast LOR3 for Monday 16th December 2024 and Tuesday 17th December 2024,
• and that these load shedding concerns were lifted when the outage was pushed back.

With that in mind, it’s worth a short note to highlight that the alerting in the ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget has flagged that this (postponed) outage commences this morning in the 05:05 dispatch interval (NEM time):

Here’s a current view of the ‘Constraint Sets’ widget in ez2view  showing the near-term plan for invocation of constraint sets:

We can see that the outage on Line 17 (i.e. relating to ‘Avon to Macarthur (17) 330kV line and Kemps Creek No.2 or No.3 500/330kV transformer O/S’) is currently expected to be finished by 17:00 (NEM time) on Friday 20th December 2024.