Market Notices

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA region

The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0900 hrs 14/04/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA .

AEMO estimates that, in the absence of sufficient market response by 0700 hrs 14/04/2024, AEMO may need to intervene by issuing a direction requiring one or more SA synchronous generating unit(s) to operate or remain synchronised to maintain power system security in SA.

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AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Cancellation - AEMO Intervention Event - Intervention trading intervals - Direction SA region 13/04/2024

Refer Market Notice 116102

The AEMO Intervention Event and all associated directions are cancelled from 0755 hrs 13/04/2024

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AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Direction - SA region 13/04/2024

In accordance with section 116 of the National Electricity Law, AEMO has issued a direction to a participant in the SA region. For the purposes of the National Electricity Rules this is a direction under clause 4.8.9(a).

The direction was necessary to maintain the power system in a secure operating state.

AEMO may issue or revoke additional directions in order to meet the current requirement, unless sufficient market response is provided. A further market notice will be issued when all directions related to this requirement have been cancelled.

The issue of the direction commences an AEMO intervention event. AEMO declares all trading intervals during the event to be intervention trading intervals, commencing from the interval ending 0905 hrs on 13/04/2024.

Intervention pricing does not apply to this AEMO intervention event.

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Change Number: CHG0088138
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Firewall
Change Title: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Change Start Date & Time: 20/04/2024 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 20/04/2024 15:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 20/04/2024 13:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 20/04/2024 13:40:00 AEST

Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:

IPWAN Participants - Nil

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants (IPSEC) - Up to 6 hours for participants who have established their VPN connection/s via the AEMO QLD datacenter termination point (202.44.76.10) only - All L2L connections should be established to both QLD / NSW.

Note: Participants are encouraged to ensure their VPN connections are already established or are configured (as per AEMO best practice) to automatically failover to the alternate AEMO NSW datacenter termination point (202.44.78.10) prior to this scheduled outage.

B2B VPN - Up to 30 minutes outage to TNSPs with B2B VPN to AEMO QLD Datacentre if VPN connection is only terminating in QLD only

SSL VPN Participants: Up to 30 minutes outage to TNSPs with B2B VPN to AEMO QLD Datacentre if VPN connection is only terminating in QLD only

Expecting an impact to the below services for approximately 10 minutes from 13:30 AEST:
RTMS UI
WEMDE UI - General Instance
WASM MPI

Other Impacts will have been communicated in advance.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Update - Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA region

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 116097

The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0900 hrs 13/04/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA .

AEMO estimates that, in the absence of sufficient market response by 0700 hrs 13/04/2024, AEMO may need to intervene by issuing a direction requiring one or more SA synchronous generating unit(s) to operate or remain synchronised to maintain power system security in SA.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Update - Non-credible contingency event - TAS region - 12/04/2024

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 116095

At 1304 hrs the Sheffield - Farrell No.2 220 kV line was returned to service.

The cause of this non-credible contingency event has been identified and AEMO is satisfied that another occurrence of this event is unlikely under the current circumstances.

AEMO will not reclassify this event as a credible contingency event.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA region

The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0900 hrs 13/04/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA .
AEMO may need to intervene by issuing a direction requiring one or more SA synchronous generating unit(s) to operate or remain synchronised to maintain power system security in SA .

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

Change Number: CHG0087945
Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal

Service/Component: EMS NEM - Network Outage Scheduler (NOS)

Change Title: Planned System Maintenance activity.
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Non-credible contingency event - TAS region - 12/04/2024

At 1048 hrs the Sheffield - Farrell No.2 220 kV line tripped during restoration due to fault on the line.

AEMO did not instruct load shedding.

AEMO has been advised of disconnection of major industrial load approximately 550 MW.

The cause of this non credible contingency event is not known at this stage.


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