On 24th January 2021, the AEMO suffered a total loss of SCADA data, which impacted on its ability to dispatch and manage the electricity system.
Also last week, AEMO informed the market of the availability of a report outlining 18 discrete incidents, over a period of just under 3 years, that included SCADA failure in some way. The report...
A short back-dated article, to link in AEMO's final report on this incident.
It's now seven months since the SCADA outage on Sunday 24th January 2021 - and we're finally able to complete and publish this (quite long) article exploring some of the implications for units on...
More time has elapsed since 'Part 3' on 24th March - today I'm posting a shorter piece (Part 4) that explains how RHS of the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation drove down output and led to...
It's taken a while to find the time - but today I'm posting this next analytical piece (Part 3) that seeks to understand what happened on Sunday 24th January 2021 with the NEM-wide SCADA...
Two months ago prices spiked in QLD on a Sunday afternoon when AEMO lost SCADA data feed. One month ago AEMO published a preliminary report. In the background we have been taking a look...
It was forecast it would be a hot day in the southern part of the NEM and it did not disappoint. The hot weather was one of the factors that contributed to price spikes...