Simultaneous trip of ER01 and ER02 drops mainland frequency in the NEM
A first article noting simultaneous trip of Eraring units 1 and 2 on Wednesday afternoon 3rd April 2024.
A first article noting simultaneous trip of Eraring units 1 and 2 on Wednesday afternoon 3rd April 2024.
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.
It’s Monday afternoon 1st April 2024 and Callide C3 has begun its journey back online following an outage longer than 500 days since the cooling tower failure in October 2022.
A quick look back at the period before easter 2024, which was forecast to be a wet week in QLD … looking particularly at solar yield.
With GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4 completed, and some time till the end of 2024 Q1, we’ve looked back at Tuesday 14th November 2023 (when AEMO had concerns about low System Strength in NSW) and looked at the level of inertia actually seen in the grid. A useful Case Study to say ‘what would have happened without Eraring?’
A Weatherzone forecast of potential high wind-speed cut-outs at some Wind Farms in the coming days will be of interest to some WattClarity readers.
Seven days ago, AEMO notified the market of a Scheduling Error from 24th Jan 2024 to 7th March 2024. A client asked us what it meant – so guest author Allan O’Neil has helped to explore and explain.
Yesterday we wrote briefly about ‘Electrical fire in switchyard at Torrens Island Power station’ following a tip on 7News. In that news update, 7News mentioned that there was an earlier fire at the switchyard on Monday 25th March 2024. With…
With ‘next day public’ bid data, we see the impact the switchyard fire had on Torrens Island BESS on Wed 27th March 2024.
A quick article following a 7News Adelaide report of an electrical fire at Torrens Island power station.
Today (Wed 27th March 2024) the AER issues a Media Release about a $900,000 penalty to Pelican Point (owned by Engie) relating to breach of rules on 8th February 2017.
A short note about another (minor) delay in return to service for the repaired Callide C3 unit, that suffered a cooling tower failure.
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.
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 also discusses what has been done to rectify.
A short note on Thu 21st March 2024, the day the AEMO notifies the market of a Scheduling Error (incident 60) spanning 24th January 2024 to 7th March 2024.
A short article to document a price spike in SA on Tuesday afternoon 12th March 2024
A short record of the start of some price volatility in South Australia on Monday 11th March 2024.
A short record of evening volatility in VIC and SA during the heatwave on Sunday 10th March 2024.
A short note to record some slightly elevated demand in VIC and SA on Sat 9th March 2024 over a hot long weekend.
A brief, and belated, post here to link through to this Update #1 on the Kuranda Weir Recovery Project (published by CleanCo on 8th March 2024)