A collation of articles relating to what unfolded on Tuesday 13th February 2024 – with a ‘Significant power system event’ occurring in Victoria.
Note that there is a different category intended to collate the longer-term developments arising out of what happened on 13th February 2024.
Also released on Friday 13th Sept 2024 was this ‘Independent Review of Transmission and Distribution Businesses Operational Response for the 13th February 2024 Storm and Power Outage Event’.
Read MoreGuest author, Carl Daley from EnergyByte, provides this summary of summer 2024 – covering price volatility, consolidation of the twin peaks dynamic, and BESS performance.
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.
In this article we circle back to Tuesday 13th February 2024 to tick off a few more of the long list of questions about the ‘Major Power System Event’ – in this article with respect to operations of the Victoria Big Battery.
Looking back at Tuesday 13th February 2024 there’s consistently large aggregate under-performance (compared to Target) across all Semi-Scheduled units in the NEM through daylight hours. The reason for the increased procurement of Regulation Raise.
A short article sharing the trend of 4-second data for Berrybank 1 and Berrybank 2 Wind Farms on Tue 13th Feb 2024.
A very short article containing the 14-hour view of 4-second data for Moorabool Wind Farm on Tue 13th Feb 2024.
Curiosity (part triggered by some conversations I noticed on social media) drove me to have a look at the implied ROCDOWN in the AEMO 4-second data for the 5 facilities (10 DUIDs) involved in rapid ramp down on Tuesday 13th February 2024.
This is a first ‘deeper dive’ into AEMO data (both 4-second SCADA data and in the EMMS via ez2view) to see what’s visible able Stockyard Hill Wind Farm on Tuesday 13th February 2024.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, takes us several steps further in understanding the events in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024 – especially with respect to VRE (wind and solar) production.
Following the review of bidding in VIC on Tue 13th Feb 2024, this review of the 4-second data for VIC on the day reveals another 28 Observations/Questions to explore later.
Some things in the AEMO’s Preliminary Operating Incident Report that stood out to me, and which will assist in our further investigations on WattClarity.
Five days after Tuesday 13th February 2024 we have a bit of time to take this initial (top-down) look at bidding for ENERGY in the Victorian region on that day … with 27 Questions/Observations identified!
A first article from me after starting to delve into a 14-hour time series of AEMO’s 4-second data for Tuesday 13th February 2024 (this one a trend of frequency to highlight points of interest).
A short article trending (through Tue 13th Feb 2024) aggregate enablement of Raise Regulation FCAS in DUIDs on the mainland … i.e. excluding Basslink.
AEMO’s preliminary operating incident report for what happened on Tuesday 13th February 2024 is available now.
In light of another transmission tower collapse caused by convective wind gusts, we’ve invited wind loading expert Dr John Holmes to explain this phenomena.
Allan O’Neil provides a couple of initial observations regarding Dundonnell Wind Farm and Loy Yang A from his first glance of at the 4-second SCADA data from the events in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon.
Perhaps unrealised by many, but Tuesday afternoon’s events in Victoria resulted in a new record low in terms of number of coal units being online in the region, Geoff Eldridge explores.
Dr Roger Dargaville from the Monash Energy Institute argues that Tuesday’s events in Victoria were a showing of a system resilience, and not fragility.