Whilst working through the AER’s Wholesale Markets Quarterly with my mind thinking back to Q2 2022 the SMS alerts have been keeping me informed of some volatility today in South Australia:
Here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at the 13:00 dispatch interval with the spot price up quite close to the $15,500/MWh Market Price Cap:
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In our third guest authored post this week, Blake Ashton from SA Power Networks talks about the SA islanding event that occurred just over twelve months ago – how SAPN managed solar curtailment, and how their new ‘flexible exports’ option can address future challenges.
In order to help us (internally) map out all the different threads to explore in terms of what happened on Friday 31st January 2020 on a remarkable day in the NEM, I’ve identified a few of the key threads here over the weekend. More articles to follow as time permits….
AEMO recently imposed additional dispatch obligations on six non-scheduled wind farms in South Australia. We take a look at what this means in practice.
A number of factors were probably contributing. Murraylink has been offline for several days and Heywood was severely constrained at the time of your snapshot. Pelican Point has had only one GT running for about a week but was completely offline since 0130. Solar was depressed late morning because of a weather front which has led to transmission line warning market notices for SA. Many of the gas peakers were called on during the day.
A number of factors were probably contributing. Murraylink has been offline for several days and Heywood was severely constrained at the time of your snapshot. Pelican Point has had only one GT running for about a week but was completely offline since 0130. Solar was depressed late morning because of a weather front which has led to transmission line warning market notices for SA. Many of the gas peakers were called on during the day.