The summer hasn’t even started yet and the first lack-of-reserve and outage notices have appeared. 16 November 2020 (1) Line Outage Upper Tumut- Stockdill AEMO market notice 80022 16/11/2020 01:39:08 PM “An…
Tag: Victoria
Victoria became power importer in January 2019 heatwave
Fig 1: 7 days power generation in Victoria (screenshot from the Open NEM website) https://opennem.org.au/#/regions/vic In order to understand the above graph we have to know how Excel is dealing with negative…
Victoria’s 600 MW brown coal plant outage leads to price spike but system survives
Yesterday, 22 Jan 2019, total power demand on Australia’s East Coast reached – just like 5 days earlier – the 35 GW mark. Fig 1: Power generation by source for 5 East…
Victoria brown coal power plant lost 1,600 MW over 4 hrs
Who can give a National Energy Guarantee? A better energy future for Australia https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/better-energy-future-australia Something must have happened at a brown coal fired power plant in Victoria, on 2 August 2018 in…
Power supply in Australia’s New South Wales: how will it cope in coming heatwave?
This post on power supplies will be updated from time to time as we sweat through the coming days. Figs 1,3 and 4 are based on data available on Fri, 27th Jan…