RERT dispatched through Friday night in NSW

At 19:01 Friday evening 17th June the AEMO published Market Notice 98386 about what became an 8-hour run of Reserve Trader in the NSW region through last night as follows:

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MARKET NOTICE
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From : AEMO
To : NEMITWEB1
Creation Date : 17/06/2022 19:01:16

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Notice ID : 98386
Notice Type ID : MARKET INTERVENTION
Notice Type Description : Reserve Contract / Direction / Instruction
Issue Date : 17/06/2022
External Reference : RERT DISPATCHED

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Reason :

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

AEMO Intervention Event, Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) – NSW1 Region- 17/06/2022

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice no. 98275
AEMO has dispatched/activated reserve contract(s) to maintain the power system in a Reliable operating state.
The reserve contract(s) was dispatched/activated at 20:00 hrs 17/06/2022 and is forecast to apply until 23:30 hrs 17/06/2022
AEMO has implemented an AEMO intervention event for the duration the reserve contract(s) is dispatched/activated/
To facilitate the RERT process, constraints commencing with the following identifiers may be evident at various times in dispatch,

#RT_NSW1

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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… then early this morning (02:00) they published this update in Market Notice NNN:

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MARKET NOTICE
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From : AEMO
To : NEMITWEB1
Creation Date : 18/06/2022 02:16:37

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Notice ID : 98426
Notice Type ID : MARKET INTERVENTION
Notice Type Description : Reserve Contract / Direction / Instruction
Issue Date : 18/06/2022
External Reference : Update – RERT DISPATCHED

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Reason :

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Update – AEMO Intervention Event, Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) – NSW1 Region- 17/06/2022 – 18/06/2022

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice no. 98275 and 98386

The reserve contract(s) was dispatched/activated at 20:00 hrs 17/06/2022 and is now forecast to apply until 04:10 hrs 18/06/2022

#RT_NSW1

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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I believe that this instance (8 hours long) the longest contiguous period that RERT (Reserve Trader) has ever been dispatched for…. and (following our discussions with EUAA on Thursday) will add another bundle to those four buckets of compensation payments energy users will be paying for.