Electrical fire in switchyard at Torrens Island Power station
A quick article following a 7News Adelaide report of an electrical fire at Torrens Island power station.
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Pelican Point penalised $900,000 for breach on Wed 8th February 2017
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.
GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4 released
A somewhat belated note about our release of GenInsights Quarterly Updates report for 2023 Q4 earlier in March 2024.
Another slight slippage in return to service (RTS) expectation for Callide C3
A short note about another (minor) delay in return to service for the repaired Callide C3 unit, that suffered a cooling tower failure.
The BOM reference document ‘Australian Space Weather Alert System’
This BOM document ‘Australian Space Weather Alert System’ might be a useful reference.
AEMO Market Notice about ‘Space weather’
Early this morning AEMO issued MN115774 about a Space Weather Event and warned 'the effects are expected to be significant'.
A focused look at operations at Victoria Big Battery (VBB) on Tuesday 13th February 2024
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...
Background information about the Victorian Big Battery and the SIPS service (System Integrity Protection System)
Prompted by the other article today, I've taken a look at published information about the required operations of the Victoria Big Battery (VBB) under the System Integrity Protection System (SIPS).
AEMO report on multiple incidents impacting SCADA over almost 3 years 2021, 2022 and 2023
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...
ESIG Report ‘New Resource Adequacy Criteria for the Energy Transition’
Last week I was notified of the release of a new ESIG report ‘New Resource Adequacy Criteria for the Energy Transition’, which will be of interest to some WattClarity readers.
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Modelling prices in a post-coal NEM: When batteries dominate the market
Paul Bandarian and David Leitch from ITK Services share modelling results for a post-coal NEM, arguing today’s electricity prices can be maintained if batteries become the dominant price-forming technology and solar is structurally supported.
Runway cost allocation – ready for liftoff?
Allan O'Neil unpacks a proposal under consideration by the AEMC to apply “runway” cost allocation to contingency FCAS, explaining how this could materially change who pays for frequency security in the NEM.
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