Broken Hill BESS restarts operations (cautiously), on Saturday 26th October 2024

Posted by Paul McArdle Saturday, October 26 2024 Topic: 2024-10-16 towers down Western NSW, 2024-10-26

Back on Friday 18th October we’d asked some questions about generation sources in and around Broken Hill, given the outage.

We’d also seen Giles Parkinson ask ‘Broken Hill has a wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery. So, why are the lights out?’ yesterday

… Giles’ article provides some useful context

 

So you’ll understand that it was welcome news to see the battery start charging this afternoon (Saturday 26th October 2024 at 15:41 NEM time) as captured in email alerts triggered from the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view as shown here:

2024-10-26-at-15-41-ez2view-Notifications-BrokenHillBESS

… but note that (as at 19:19 NEM time) we’ve not yet seen any discharge this evening (… yet?).  This is shown in this updated trend chart from the ‘Trends Engine’ within ez2view here:

2024-10-26-at-19-19-ez2view-TrendsEngine-BrokenHillBESS

This was flagged earlier today in this update from Energy MInister, Penny Sharpe, via LinkedIn:

2024-10-26-LinkedIN-PennySharpe-update

I’ve highlighted the two particular updates that jumped out to me in the above.

As a comment added to that note, the Minister pointed to this page on the Department’s website, which currently reads as follows:

2024-10-26-at-19-35-DepartmentWebsite

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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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