Still watching the market (in between other preparations) we noted this emailed alert from the ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget noting a trip of BW03 unit immediately prior to the 16:10 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Wednesday 5th March 2025:
No time to look further, but here’s a quick snapshot of live NEM mainland frequency (measured at 100 milli-seconds, though this chart truncates a bit):
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Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
The publication by AGL Energy of the short note about the transformer incident (and injured worker) at Liddell unit 3 yesterday prompted me to have a quick look, following on from the volatility this week.
A quick look at Saturday 11th April (Easter Saturday) where there were major reductions in output at 4 units across Victoria – 3 coal units in the Latrobe Valley and the Macarthur Wind Farm out in western Victoria, probably related.
Like was the case on 4th July 2013, the cause of this large Aggregate Raw Off-Target result (across all Semi-Scheduled Generators) was a single unit trip.
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