We’ve only just published ‘AEMO directs 4 units on in Victoria, to cover System Strength shortfall’ … noting that, at that time, there were 3 coal units in Victoria offline.
Our ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view has alerted us that Loy Yang A2 unit has also come offline shortly afterwards (just prior to 09:30 NEM time):
Here’s a snapshot of the ‘Unit Dashboard’ widget in ez2view looking back over the past 24 hours for the unit:
The unit began trending down at 08:05 this morning and, prior to that, there’s nothing immediately obvious (in what’s visible here) to suggest the unit planned to come offline – but the fact that the 4 x AEMO directions all referenced the need to be online by 09:30 and the fact that MN120401 gave first clues at 21:19 yesterday suggests either:
1) An uncanny coincidence; or
2) That the AEMO calculations factored in LYA2 coming offline.
More later?
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