However overnight there was a hiccup during which it tripped again (for reasons I have not investigated) – as shown in the ez2view snapshot at 10:00 (NEM time) on Wednesday 14th February 2024, this unit is back online again in the early hours of this morning:
Have not seen any generation at LYA1 or LYA4 yet … but thankfully no change in the MT PASA DUID Availability data in the ‘Generator Outages’ widget highlighted above.
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Allan O’Neil provides a couple of initial observations regarding Dundonnell Wind Farm and Loy Yang A from his first glance of at the 4-second SCADA data from the events in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon.
We’ve only just published ‘AEMO directs 4 units on in Victoria, to cover System Strength shortfall’ … noting that, at that time, there were 3 coal units in Victoria offline.
Our ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view has alerted us that Loy Yang A2 unit has also come offline shortly afterwards (just prior to 09:30 NEM time).
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