Using the ElectraNet 2024 TAPR to locate the lines with unplanned outage (on Thursday evening 17th October 2024)

Posted by Paul McArdle Thursday, October 17 2024 Topic: 2024-10-17, 2024-10-17 towers down northern SA

Earlier we noted ‘Destructive Winds disrupt (and damage) transmission network in South Australia on Thursday (evening) 17th October 2024’.

Curiosity got the better of me so I grabbed the ElectraNet 2024 TAPR and (using page 48) put together the following picture to show the rough location of the transmission disruptions:

2024-10-17-ElectraNet-TAPR-NetworkMap

Times shown (in NEM time) are the times noted in the Market Notices in the earlier article (i.e. when the ‘unplanned outage’ occurred, not when the Notices were published).

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