Browsing through various units and thought I’d post this trend from the 4-second data for both Berrybank Wind Farm 1 and Berrybank Wind Farm 2 in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024 in the 4-second data:
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A detailed look at two specific trading periods in the day (Tuesday 24th July 2018) that saw negative dispatch prices occur at the start of trading periods – hence provided a case study for how existing Semi-Scheduled plant respond (especially in combination with transmission constraints and the Semi-Dispatch Cap).
A first article from me after starting to delve into a 14-hour time series of AEMO’s 4-second data for Tuesday 13th February 2024 (this one a trend of frequency to highlight points of interest).
Two months ago prices spiked in QLD on a Sunday afternoon when AEMO lost SCADA data feed. One month ago AEMO published a preliminary report. In the background we have been taking a look…
Following the review of bidding in VIC on Tue 13th Feb 2024, this review of the 4-second data for VIC on the day reveals another 28 Observations/Questions to explore later.
1 Commenton "Berrybank Wind Farms 1&2 in the 4-second data on Tuesday 13th February 2024"
From the market data, Berrybank 2’s ups and downs are clearly constraint driven (like Moorabool WF), although it was persistently below target output (by up to 10-15%) between 11:00 and 13:00.
On the other hand Berrybank 1’s availability dropped to low levels then to zero in the half hour following the main event and stayed there for all but a couple of DIs until about 20:00 when it recovered.
From the market data, Berrybank 2’s ups and downs are clearly constraint driven (like Moorabool WF), although it was persistently below target output (by up to 10-15%) between 11:00 and 13:00.
On the other hand Berrybank 1’s availability dropped to low levels then to zero in the half hour following the main event and stayed there for all but a couple of DIs until about 20:00 when it recovered.