Directlink Archives

More network trips in northern NSW, on Friday 7th March 2025 (is TC Alfred involved?)

Fri 7^th March 2025 9:18 AM | Paul McArdle

The AEMO notes that, at 06:12 (NEM time) on Friday 7th March 2025 various 132kV lines between Lismore and Mullumbimby tripped, along with No 1 and 2 cables of Directlink. This follows localised distribution...

Unplanned outage of No 1 leg of Directlink (was this related to the emergence of TC Alfred?)

Wed 5^th March 2025 12:31 PM | Paul McArdle

AEMO says 'At 1030 hrs the Ewingsdale-Mullumbimby 9G5 132kV line and the Directlink DC1 tripped'. Was this related to TC Albert?

An inter-regional interconnector refers to the whole of the transmission path between RRNs

Wed 20^th November 2024 12:21 PM | Paul McArdle

We already noted this a few times recently, but we thought it would be worth separating out as its own article under the ‘Energy Literacy’ category, as it’s likely we’ll be referring back to...