Temporary replacement towers up, for the Moorabool Sydenham No2 500 kV line (from 12:10 on Wed 6th March 2024)

On Tuesday 27th February we wrote ‘Temporary replacement towers up, for the Moorabool Sydenham No1 500 kV line (on Sun 25th Feb 2024)’ following a prompt by WattClarity reader, Alex.

True to form, Alex also noted in his comment here today that the second line is also now back up and running, on temporary towers.  The full text of the Market Notice is here:

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MARKET NOTICE
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From :              AEMO
To   :              NEMITWEB1
Creation Date :     06/03/2024     12:23:08

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Notice ID               :         115511
Notice Type ID          :         INTER-REGIONAL TRANSFER
Notice Type Description :         Inter-Regional Transfer limit variation
Issue Date              :         06/03/2024
External Reference      :         Inter-regional transfer limit variation – Moorabool Sydenham No2 500 kV line – Vic region – 06/03/2024

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Reason :

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

At 1210 hrs 06/03/2024 in the Victoria region, the Moorabool Sydenham No2 500 kV line returned to service on temporary towers.

Constraint set changes.

Revoked:
V-MLSY_NOEMTT_R

This constraint set(s) contains equations with the following interconnectors on the LHS.
T-V-MNSP1
V-SA
V-S-MNSP1
VIC1- NSW1

Refer these Market Notices:

MN 114577 (issued Tue 13th Feb at 13:22, as noted on Wattclarity),

MN 114768 (repeated from before, this one does not seem to refer to this incident … suggest it’s a typo carried through from MN114770 and most likely should read MN114625 published Tue 13th Feb at 15:06 as noted on WattClarity),

MN  114686 (issued Wed 14th Feb at 01:24) and

MN  114770 (issued Thu 15th Feb at 19:34)

MN  115120 (issued Sun 25th Feb at 19:46)

Refer to the AEMO Network Outage Scheduler for further information.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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END OF REPORT
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