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.
In this article we’ll have a first pass at what happened in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024 at a DI-by-DI level … which we call ‘Timeline #1’ level – noting will go more granular later (Timeline #2) and less granular later (Timeline #3).
The third (of 4) units at Loy Yang A that tripped on Wed 13th Feb 2024 is beginning to return to service ~26 hours afterwards.
What happened yesterday (Tue 13th Feb 2024) in Victoria was a significant event in the history of the NEM – and the flow on effects will be felt for weeks and months (even years?). Here’s a starting list of questions we’d like to explore…
The sixth transmission tower failure within the NEM in almost four years, has prompted further questions about the physical network and its resilience to severe convective winds.
Weatherzone meteorologist, Ben Domensino, reports on the extent of the severe weather conditions across Victoria yesterday.
A follow up on the (bumpy) return to service for Loy Yang A2
The start of a return to service for Loy Yang A3.
AEMO reports (at 20:30) still 473,000 customers off supply.
Ben Domensino (from Weatherzone) provides useful information about the weather experienced in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024
At 20:00 NEM time (21:00 in VIC) we see still ~470,000 customers without electricity supply.
A short article to record a question from a client that we did not have time to investigate further today.
The Department of Energy* in Victoria confirms that six towers have been downed, on Tuesday 13th February 2024
In amongst the frenetic challenges in Victoria today, the Callide B1 unit (in QLD) tripped … probably unrelated to the VIC activity.
A photo of downed transmission towers near Geelong, reported in ABC News’ blog, was observed on 13 February 2024.
A chronological record of the (directed) load shedding in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon 13th February 2024
At 16:13:14 the AEMO published Market Notice 114643 about Hazelwood transformers
About 3 hours after it tripped offline (due to transmission outage?) the Loy Yang A2 unit is making its way back online.
it’s not just Victoria experiencing issues … Market Notice 114642 published at 16:14 highlights issues in Tasmania
A tweet from Powercor shows distribution lines down, on Tue 13th Feb 2024 … no doubt also elsewhere as well.
At 15:06 AEMO reported *rumours* of transmission towers on the ground in Victoria. Constraint Set data at 15:45 suggests these rumours are not (yet?) confirmed.