Eraring Units Back
The two Eraring units that had tripped on Wednesday 3 April 2024 were returned to service by 11pm that evening.
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Fast frequency recovery, on Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Fourth article on Wed 3rd April 2024, pertaining to the earlier coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 units at Eraring Power Station.
AEMO Market Notice 115944 about trip of ER01 and ER02
AEMO Market Notice 115944 notifies that the coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 was at 13:22 NEM time on Wednesday 3rd April 2024.
Replaying four dispatch intervals on Wed 3rd April 2024 with the ER01 and ER02 trip (Part 2)
In this second short article for the day, we Time-Travel ez2view back to 4 x Dispatch Intervals surrounding the coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 at Eraring Power Station.
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.
Focusing on VIC exports (and imports) with the ‘Major Power System Event’ on Tuesday 13th February 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...
Callide C3 starts up, after 518 days offline – on 1st April 2024 (no, that’s *not* an April fools tall tale)
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.
Recapping aggregate solar yield in Queensland’s ‘wet week’ prior to Easter 2024
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.
AEMC makes Final Determination to improve market arrangements for Security Services
On 28 March 2024, the AEMC published the ‘Final rule to improve security frameworks for the energy market transition’ (the ISF determination)
Case Study of inertia supplied by source in the NSW grid on Tuesday 14th November 2023
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...
Guest Authored Posts
Why Gladstone’s prospective closure reveals a new kind of NEM failure
With the Queensland state government’s new energy roadmap due out tomorrow, Greg Elkins highlights how distorted signals and state interventions expose a new NEM failure.
The increasingly stochastic and volatile NEM
Oliver Nunn from Endgame Economics argues that we must begin to think about the distribution of prices in the NEM as a function of weather.
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