With that in mind, it’s worth a short note to highlight that the alerting in the ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget has flagged that this (postponed) outage commences this morning in the 05:05 dispatch interval (NEM time):
We can see that the outage on Line 17 (i.e. relating to ‘Avon to Macarthur (17) 330kV line and Kemps Creek No.2 or No.3 500/330kV transformer O/S’) is currently expected to be finished by 17:00 (NEM time) on Friday 20th December 2024.
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.
At 13:06 NEM time the AEMO published MN121831 and 121833 noting the cancellation of the forecast LOR3 that was in place for both Monday 16th December 2024 and Tuesday 17th December 2024.
Based on some preliminary analysis of the Powerlink’s ‘Qdata’ set (available in ez2view) we present our current hypothesis as to the sequence of the events yesterday in the QLD region, where 600MW of solar generation was lost, causing the price to spike to MPC.
Following a tight supply-demand balance in New Zealand on a winter Monday evening 9th August 2021, leading to unserved energy, here’s a quick review of what information I could find.
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