A collection of articles pertaining to summer 2023-24 in the NEM – including;
1. Forecasts and concerns ahead of time
2. What unfolded in real time through the summer
3 . More considered articles looking backwards on the summer period.
A short note to help readers see what units are currently running on a hot & humid Friday afternoon 19th Jan 2024 in QLD (and to highlight some up-coming changes to ez2view).
As the afternoon marches towards evening, the demand in Queensland is climbing (on Friday 19th January 2024)
This morning (in the article ‘Looking forward, to Monday 22nd January 2024 in Queensland’) I wrote about the forecast LOR2 condition that the AEMO was warning about at the time – looking ahead to Monday 22nd January 2024. (A) …
A quick look (Friday morning 19th January) towards Monday evening 22nd January 2024 in Queensland.
A short summation of where demand landed in QLD on Thursday evening 18th January 2024.
A third article (first on the day) looking at tight supply-demand balance in the QLD ‘Economic Island’ on Thursday 18th January 2024
A second article looking at forecast tight supply-demand balance in Queensland on Thursday 18th Jan 2024.
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).