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Posted by Paul McArdle Wednesday, October 16 2024
Topic: 2024-10-16
As we’ve done on several occasions in recent times, here’s another article about a frequency disruption we’ve seen in real time in the NEM:
This drop (shortly before 13:41 NEM time on Wednesday 16th October 2024) was well within the NOFB .
It lines up well with this alert triggered from an internal copy of ez2view (the ‘Notifications’ widget) showing a coal unit that’s come offline:
This time it was Stanwell unit 3.
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