Broken Hill’s backup generator back online Tuesday evening 22nd October 2024
It's Wednesday morning and the backup generator in Broken Hill (GB01) has run successfully through the night after restarting Tuesday afternoon 22nd October 2024.
Major Outages
A collection of articles about major outages (units, transmission, etc)
Back-up generator in Broken Hill tripped offline Monday 21st Oct, still offline Tuesday morning 22nd Oct 2024
At 16:41 (NEM time) on Monday 21st October the back-up generator in Broken Hill tripped - and is still offline on Tuesday morning 22nd October 2024.
Update from the NSW government (on Sat 19th Oct 2024), on power supply restoration in in western NSW
Via an update on LinkedIn from NSW Energy Minister, we’ve become aware of this update on the NSW Government website ‘Update on NSW Government response to power outage in Far West NSW’.
Two updates (on Saturday 19th October 2024) on restoration, following Thursday evening storms in South Australia
Two independent updates (on Sat 19th Oct) about restoration activities following storms in SA on Thursday evening 17th October 2024.
‘Market Demand’ in South Australia falls to ‘lowest ever’ point on Saturday 19th October 2024
The 'Market Demand' in South Australia has fallen to its lowest ever point, on Saturday 19th October, and is forecast to fall lower still (in part because Olympic Dam is offline).
ElectraNet provide update that 29 transmission structures went down in SA, during last night’s weather event
ElectraNet are reporting that at least twenty-three transmission towers and six 132kV stobie poles fell down or were damaged during last night's wild weather.
Living on an island … in Broken Hill
A quick review of electricity supply sources (that are visible to us) around the Broken Hill area.
Olympic Dam now offline, as SA demand was already forecasted to go negative this weekend
Several media outlets are reporting that Olympic Dam in South Australia has lost power, which may cause headaches for system operators with demand in South Australia forecast to go negative this weekend.
Clements Gap Wind Farm still offline, on Friday morning 18th October 2024.
Clements Gap Wind Farm was one of the wind farms in SA that appeared to trip unexpectedly on Thursday evening 17th October 2024. We take a quick look.
Snowtown 1 Wind Farm back online (Friday morning 18th October 2024) after being offline for >12 hours
Snowtown 1 Wind Farm was one of the wind farms in SA that appeared to trip unexpectedly on Thursday evening 17th October 2024. We take a quick look.
(Initial) Replay of Thursday evening 17th October 2024 in SA
Using 'next day public' data in ez2view, here's an initial replay of 7 dispatch intervals on Thursday evening 17th Oct 2024 in South Australia.
Using the ElectraNet 2024 TAPR to locate the lines with unplanned outage (on Thursday evening 17th October 2024)
Second article for Thursday evening 17th October 2024, about unplanned network outages (in severe weather) in South Australia.
Destructive Winds disrupt (and damage) transmission network in South Australia on Thursday (evening) 17th October 2024
On Thursday evening 17th October 2024, a significant weather event in South Australia has damaged the high-voltage network in SA Far North (and power supply has been impacted).
Seven transmission towers collapse near Broken Hill overnight
ABC Broken Hill has reported that seven transmission towers collapsed south of the town overnight due to strong winds and hail.
Callide C3 offline until expected return to service on Monday 26th August 2024
A short initial article, 5 days after Callide C3 came offline again for another forced outage ... during a period that's seen multi-region spot price volatility.
Two news updates from CS Energy on Wed 17th July 2024 … the (final) Brady Report (about Callide C4), and the Hartz EPM Report (on the Cooling Towers)
On Wednesday 17th July 2024, CS Energy released the Brady-Heywood report (about Callide C4 failure on 25th May 2021) and the HartzEPM Report (about CallideC3 failure on 31st Oct 2022) ... and an Action...
Barron Gorge Power Station returns to service approximately six months after significant damage from Cyclone Jasper
CleanCo have announced the RTS of Barron Gorge Unit 1 and 2 after a ~6 month outage following significant damage from Cyclone Jasper.
Barron Gorge Unit 2 gets a run, on Friday 21st June 2024
On Friday 21st June 2024 the unit 2 of Barron Gorge hydro facility has started up - the next step in a repair process following TC Jasper six months ago.
Also <40 days till the return of Barron Gorge
A quick update on the return to service expectation on Barron Gorge hydro power station.
Callide C updates – operations (<40 days till RTS!), and in the courts
At the end of an eventful week in the NEM, here's an update on a few fronts with respect to Callide C.