AEMO directs again in South Australia for Minimum System Load – Wednesday 12th November 2025 (second day in a row)

We’re not going to make a habit of this (as I suspect it’s going to be quite frequent) but worth noting that:

• It’s Wednesday 12th November 2025
• and AEMO has issued a direction to Torrens BESS
  • due to forecast MSL in South Australia,
  • for the second day in a row (see notes about yesterday) .

Briefly, we’ll start with this snapshot from NEMwatch at 09:40 (NEM time) this morning:

The two Market Notices highlighted are copied in below – starting with MN130594 published at 07:03:

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MARKET NOTICE
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From :              AEMO
To   :              NEMITWEB1
Creation Date :     12/11/2025     07:03:05

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Notice ID               :         130594
Notice Type ID          :         MARKET INTERVENTION
Notice Type Description :         Reserve Contract / Direction / Instruction
Issue Date              :         12/11/2025
External Reference      :         Direction – SA region 12/11/2025

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Reason :

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.
Direction – SA region 11/11/2025

Refer to Market Notice 130553

In accordance with section 116 of the National Electricity Law, AEMO is issuing a direction to the participants specified below. For the purposes of the National Electricity Rules these are directions under clause 4.8.9(a1)(1). 

Directions issued to:
AGL SA Generation Pty Limited – TORRENS ISLAND BESS

Required actions:  remain synchronised and follow dispatch targets at 0700 hrs 12/11/2025

These directions are issued at 0700 hrs 12/11/2025

Type of resource: bi-directional unit

Services provided: Minimum System Load Management

Circumstances necessitating the direction: AEMO has detected that there is an elevated risk of insufficient demand to maintain a secure operating state

Expected duration: 1430 hrs 12/11/2025

No participant specified in this direction incurs any civil monetary liability for a relevant action taken in accordance with this direction unless the action is taken in bad faith. 

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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At 07:03 the AEMO followed with MN130595 as follows:

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MARKET NOTICE
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From :              AEMO
To   :              NEMITWEB1
Creation Date :     12/11/2025     07:03:25

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Notice ID               :         130595
Notice Type ID          :         MARKET INTERVENTION
Notice Type Description :         Reserve Contract / Direction / Instruction
Issue Date              :         12/11/2025
External Reference      :         Direction – SA region 12/11/2025

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Reason :

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Direction – SA region 12/11/2025

In accordance with section 116 of the National Electricity Law, AEMO has issued a direction to a participant in the SA region. For the purposes of the National Electricity Rules this is a direction under clause 4.8.9(a1)(1).

The issue of the direction commences an AEMO intervention event. AEMO declares all trading intervals during the event to be intervention trading intervals, commencing from the interval ending 0705 hrs on 12/11/2025.

Intervention pricing does not apply to this AEMO intervention event.

AEMO may issue or revoke additional directions in order to meet the current requirement, unless sufficient market response is provided. A further market notice will be issued when all directions related to this requirement have been cancelled.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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