Murraylink back in service, from Friday 19th April 2024
Murraylink had been offline on an outage, but returned to service on Friday 19th April 2024
Murraylink
Network outage (currently underway) on Murraylink DC interconnector
Whilst thinking about interconnectors, there’s an outage currently underway on Murraylink.
Focusing on VIC exports (and imports) with the ‘Major Power System Event’ on Tuesday 13th February 2024
In this article we look again at Tuesday 13th February 2024 (Victoria’s ‘Major Power System Event’) and sum up the impact of the event on net exports from Victoria over a 14-hour period, but particularly around ~13:08 when the towers were downed.
No, South Australia is *not* exporting more electricity than it imports…
We’re seeing an increasing number of claims on social media along the lines of ‘South Australia exporting more than it imports’. Whilst that was true around 2019, it’s NOT been the case for a number of years.
Currently forecast LOR2 for South Australia for Wednesday 10th May 2023
A first look at a forecast for tight supply-demand conditions for South Australia on Wednesday 10th May 2023.
Non-credible contingency event (and ~40MW loss of load) in country NSW early this morning
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.
Morning price volatility in South Australia on Tuesday 17th May 2022
A quick look at market volatility in the South Australian region of the NEM on Tuesday 17th May 2022.