There were two significant drops in frequency on Thursday 5th September 2024. Whilst the first coincided with (brief) Market Suspension, in this article we take a look at the second (around 16:45).
Market Notice 118151 jumped out at me, because it pertains to an AEMO Direction to a Market Participant in NSW. Can't recall seeing that very often?
An updated trend of system frequency to ~14:53 related to AEMO IT incident INC0136004 and Market Suspension.
AEMO declares that the suspension of the spot market will end at 1510 hrs on 05 September 2024.
AEMO declares the spot market suspended from 13:55 on Thursday 5th September 2024 until further notice.
A quick look at how System Frequency trended down with the IT issues experienced at AEMO impacting on the dispatch process.
Apparently some IT issues within the AEMO are causing issues with the AEMO dispatch process - on Thursday 5th September 2024.
A few questions (from several different directions) gave us pause to run this quick query of how 'Gate Closure #2' times (in the rebid process) have changed over time.
On Sunday 1st Sept 2024, aggregate curtailment of Solar Resource from (Semi-Scheduled) Large Solar across the NEM reached 79.2% ... in this follow-on article we explore the question 'WHICH Solar Farms were curtailed ......
A couple days after the end of 'winter 2024' the temperature has dropped by 10 degrees in Archerfield. We take a look at how temperatures in Archerfield through winter 2024 compare with the 18...
Whilst not reaching the heights of curtailment of Semi-Scheduled Large Solar, on Sunday 1st September 2024 curtailment of Wind yield across the NEM reached as high as 54%.
On Sunday 1st September 2024 curtailment of Large Solar yield across the NEM reached as high as 79.2%.
A look back over the strong wind farm production over recent days, to Monday 2nd September 2024.
Overnight into Monday 2nd September 2024, the AEMO has extended its Severe Weather warning into SA, and then into VIC.
On Sunday 1st September 2024 the 'minimum demand' point in NSW ratcheted lower still - a drop of 6% on the preceding 'lowest ever' point set just over 10 months ago.
With the Severe Weather persisting in Tasmania into Sunday 1st September 2024, reports suggest ~5% of the population without power due to many localized network outages.
For ease of future reference (with more analysis coming - time permitting) we've extracted what we can find in the 2024 ESOO about Data Centre electricity consumption, and growth forecasts.
Saturday 31st August 2024 also sees AEMO issue a Severe Weather Warning for Tasmania
Saturday 31st August 2024 saw warm temperatures and high rooftop PV yield contribute to a new low point for 'Market Demand' in NSW
It's Friday 30th August 2024 and Callide C4 has commenced its return-to-service (and re-commissioning), after an outage lasting 1193 days