Broken Hill’s backup generator back online Tuesday evening 22nd October 2024
It’s Wednesday morning and the backup generator in Broken Hill (GB01) has run successfully through the night after restarting Tuesday afternoon 22nd October 2024.
It’s Wednesday morning and the backup generator in Broken Hill (GB01) has run successfully through the night after restarting Tuesday afternoon 22nd October 2024.
At 16:41 (NEM time) on Monday 21st October the back-up generator in Broken Hill tripped – and is still offline on Tuesday morning 22nd October 2024.
A quick review of electricity supply sources (that are visible to us) around the Broken Hill area.
ABC Broken Hill has reported that seven transmission towers collapsed south of the town overnight due to strong winds and hail.
A short article about loss of supply to customers in western NSW (in the ‘West Murray’ area) early Monday morning, and and tripping of a number of generation and other plant.
To mark the end of the financial year, Dan Lee writes this explainer about MLFs and gives some examples of noticeable long-term MLF trends within the NEM.