A short note on Wednesday evening 27th March 2024 to highlight this update via Twitter from 7News Adelaide:
There’s a bit of detail in the videos above. Opening ez2view and looking at both the legacy station and the new battery, we see that:
1) There’s still a gas-fired unit running at the old station; but
2) The battery’s not been running since ~16:00 NEM time (either charge or discharge). This might be for various reasons (i.e. independent of the fire).
PS1 – Market Notice 115833
Belatedly I notice that AEMO published Market Notice 115833 at 15:48:18 this afternoon as follows:
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MARKET NOTICE
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From : AEMO
To : NEMITWEB1
Creation Date : 27/03/2024 15:48:18
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Notice ID : 115833
Notice Type ID : POWER SYSTEM EVENTS
Notice Type Description : Emergency events/conditions
Issue Date : 27/03/2024
External Reference : Non-credible contingency event – SA region – Torrens Island 27/03/2024
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Reason :
AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.
Non-credible contingency event – SA region – Torrens Island 27/03/2024
At 1529 hrs there was an unplanned outage of the following elements:
Torrens Island A 275 kV West Bus
Torrens Island AC3 275 kV CB
AEMO did not instruct load shedding.
AEMO has not been advised of any disconnection of bulk electrical load.
The cause of this non credible contingency event is not known at this stage.
Manager NEM Real Time Operations
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END OF REPORT
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Seems too much of a coincidence to not be related?
Could be related to the solar storm warning as electrical fires are a common side effect.