Collections of events that we see happening in the NEM, categorised in terms of the seasons in which they occur.
A first article about forecast high temperatures (hence high demand, and also potentially LOR levels) for Queensland on Thursday 18th January 2024 … and also Fri 19th and Mon 22nd.
The CleanCo CEO last week participated in a radio interview in which he provided details and a progress update on the long-term outage at Barron Gorge Hydro Station, which was caused by excessive flooding from Cycle Jasper last month.
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 – this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
This article (Part 3) follows on from Part 1 and Part 2, which looked at four successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days – and updating Tuesday’s earlier article.
An article from RenewEconomy alerts me to yesterday’s fire at the (in commissioning) Mannum Solar Farm 2 in South Australia. We take a quick initial look.
Today we take a look back at the operation of Stanwell unit 1 over the past 3 years … but particularly since its return from a Major Outage in September 2023
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
A quick look back at Saturday 6th January 2024 in South Australia – and the case of an unforecast drop in ‘Market Demand’
Guest author Allan O’Neil continues our series of posts on very low system demand levels in South Australia and Victoria on New Year’s Eve, with a few unresolved questions remaining
Fourth article today, taking a quick look at neighbouring South Australia – which has also seen a new ‘lowest ever’ level of Market Demand.
Third article today, focusing on an apparent anomaly between AEMO’s P30 and P5 predispatch forecasts for Victorian demand today (Sun 31st Dec 2023).
A second article today on this challenging day for the Victorian grid, looking at which supply sources are running.
First article today, recording a new ‘lowest ever’ point for demand in Victoria (Sun 31st Dec 2023), and possible intervention from AEMO has it looks to drop further, leading to possible grid instability.
Taking a quick look back at two days of extreme levels of demand in Queensland during the ‘sleepy period’ between Xmas and New Year.
Some quick initial notes about the second day of remarkably high demand in QLD during the normally ‘sleepy’ period between Xmas and New Year (Fri 29th Dec 2023).
Second short article on Thursday evening 28th December 2023, looking forward to Friday evening 29th December 2023.
Noteworthy that in the sleepy period between Christmas and New Year the QLD region can exceed 9,500MW (fast approaching an all-time maximum) on the first day of a two-day state wide heatwave.
An initial look at the ‘out of the blue’ price spike in QLD at 14:30 on Thursday 21st December 2023.