Market Notices

Change Number: CHG0091339

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: NSW Marketnet Router Replacement

Change Start Date & Time: 31/08/2024 14:00:31 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 31/08/2024 18:00:31 AEST

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Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage on 31st Aug 2024:

IPWAN Participants - A brief interuption of up to 60 seconds while services are failover from NSW to QLD Datacenter.

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants (IPSEC) - Up to 2 hour outage for participants who have established their VPN connection/s via the AEMO NSW datacenter termination point (202.44.78.10) 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 QLD datacenter termination point (202.44.76.10) prior to this scheduled outage.

B2B VPN - No impact is expected.

SSL VPN Participants: None expected as SSL VPN's are hosted on a different device.

GASHUB: No impact is expected as GASHUB is currently operating out of BNE Datacenter.

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?d=pp_services_status for any planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0091340

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: QLD Marketnet Router Replacement

Change Start Date & Time: 14/09/2024 14:00:01 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 14/09/2024 18:00:01 AEST

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Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage on the 14th September 2024:

IPWAN Participants - A brief interuption of up to 60 seconds while services are failover from QLD to NSW Datacenter.

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants (IPSEC) - Up to 2 hour outage 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 - No impact is expected.

SSL VPN Participants: None expected as SSL VPN's are hosted on a different device.

GASHUB: No impact is expected as GASHUB will be failed over to the NSW Datacenter.

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?d=pp_services_status for any planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0091298

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: Change to MarketNet SSL VPN

Change Start Date & Time: 19/08/2024 18:00:43 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 19/08/2024 22:00:43 AEST

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Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: A change to the MarketNet SSL VPN connection will take place on the 19th August 2024 between 6pm and 10PM AEST. There will be a 30 minute period during this change where no new VPN Connections will be able to be established.

Post the change window, participants running on an older version of the software may receive a message that the Anyconnect VPN client needs to be updated. This process should be automatic and once done VPN connectivity should be as normal.

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?d=pp_services_status for any planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0091533

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed

Change Type: Normal

Service/Component: Short Term Trading Market

Change Title: Planned Outage for the Gas Short Term Trading Market Systems Production.

Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Cancellation of Actual (LOR1) condition in the SA region - 30/07/2024

The Actual LOR1 Condition in the SA Region advised in AEMO Electricity Market Notice No. 117509 is cancelled at 2040 hrs 30/07/2024.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Actual Lack Of Reserve Level 1 (LOR1) in the SA region - 30/07/2024

An Actual LOR1 condition has been declared under clause 4.8.4(b) of the National Electricity Rules for the SA region from 2000 hrs.
The Actual LOR1 condition is forecast to exist until 2030 hrs

The capacity reserve requirement is 450 MW
The minimum capacity reserve available is 404 MW

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Refer to market notices 117060.

AEMO, TransGrid, Powerlink have reviewed the test results following the QNI minor testing on 19th June 2024. The next hold point can now be released.

The hold point of 1400 MW from Qld to NSW will be implemented as of 1000 hrs 31st July 2024.

Please also refer to the published formal QNI minor testing information at the following link:
https://www.aemo.com.au/consultations/current-and-closed-consultations/qld-to-nsw-interconnector-qni-upgrade

Ben Blake
AEMO Operations

Change Number: CHG0091507

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Business to Business data exchange

Change Title: As part of the Platform Services Patching Program, webMethods Inactive Production Application Servers in Brisbane will have critical security patches applied.

Change Start Date & Time: 26/08/2024 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 28/08/2024 18:00:00 AEST

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Outage End Date & Time:

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: This is the Inactive Production environment, there is no impact for external participants.

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?d=pp_services_status for any planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Update - Non-credible contingency event - QLD region - 30/07/2024

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 117503

The cause of this non credible contingency event is not known at this stage.
AEMO is not satisfied that this non credible event is unlikely to re-occur.
AEMO has therefore reclassified this event as a credible contingency event until further notice.

Region: QLD

Elements: Darling Downs Power Station
Duration: 0720 hrs until further notice
Constraint set(s) invoked: Q-DARLING_DOWNS_N-2

Manager NEM Real Time Operations