The fire at Torrens Island switchyard (Wed 27th March 2024) curtailed the Torrens Battery

Yesterday we wrote briefly about ‘Electrical fire in switchyard at Torrens Island Power station’ following a tip on 7News.

Taking advantage of the ‘next day public’ data set released after 04:00 NEM time today, I’ve dialled up the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget inside of ez2view to have a quick look at what might be seen, looking back 7 days:

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The window above is filtered down to the TIBESS station (i.e. for the Torrens Island Battery), so the ‘preparing for IESS v9.9.1.98’ copy I am running shows both sides of the battery together.  In the Bids Table below that we see (in amongst all of the automatically generated and formatted rebids) a bid that stands out as manually submitted:

  • It was submitted at 15:54:30 (NEM time)
  • First used for the 16:00 dispatch interval (i.e. which is run at ~15:55, so the rebid just scraped in before ‘gate closure’)
  • Speaks about ‘Unexpected/plant limits~Disconnection from Switchyard’ in the rebid reason.

 

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Comparing the preceding bid in the ‘Bids Comparison’ function in the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget we can see the capacity was withdrawn for a number of hours as a result of the switchyard fire.


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Paul McArdle
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients. Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.

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