A Trip of 550MW of industrial load in Tasmania on Friday 12th April 2024 represented a sudden loss of a very large fraction of total Tasmanian load.
The grid frequency chart spanning the event highlights three points in time:
- At 10:48:52 grid frequency was normal at 50.019 Hz.
- The next measurement, 4 seconds later, at 10:48:56 recorded a frequency of 51.233 Hz.
- A steady return to 50 Hz was completed by 10:57:12, approximately 8 minutes later.
There will likely be more analysis to follow as we unpack the event.
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