Two-shifting again at BW02 on Saturday 11th October 2025
Worth noting that Saturday 11th October 2025 saw Bayswater Unit 2 perform the two-shift shuffle again.
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Aggregate (estimated) curtailment of Large Solar exceeds 70% on Sunday 5th October 2025
On the prior weekend (Saturday 4th October 2025 and Sunday 5th October 2025) we saw high levels of aggregate curtailment across all Large Solar Farms.
Also difficult to see any fluctuation in Mainland Frequency on Sunday morning 5th October 2025, with BW02 offline (two-shifting)
Not seeing any obvious blip in system frequency (at the time BW02 came offline on Sat 4th Oct 2025) we also looked at the similar outage on Sun 5th Oct 2025.
Talk about two-shifting … such as with BW02 on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2025
Today's LinkedIn update from Geoff Eldridge at GPE about two-shifting at BW02 (such as on Sat 4th Oct 2025 and Sun 5th Oct 2025) coincides with other investigations, and prompts me to take a...
AEMO issues (short-notice, short-lived) direction for System Strength in NSW on Sunday 5th October 2025
A short article for Sunday 5th October 2025 to record the Direction issued for System Strength for NSW on Sunday 5th October 2025
AEMO forecasts MSL1 for the coming Saturday 4th October 2025 and Sunday 5th October 2025
On Monday 29th September 2025 the AEMO alerted of possible MSL1 for the coming weekend (Sat 4th October and Sunday 5th October) in Victoria.