Market Notices

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Direction - SA region 19/06/2024

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 1650 hrs on 19/06/2024.

Intervention pricing does not apply to this AEMO intervention event.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

Change Number: CHG0090808

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Cancelled

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Short Term Trading Market

Change Title: CANCELLED - 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

Change Number: CHG0090631

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed

Change Type: Normal

Service/Component: Internet Access

Change Title: Planned Maintenance to Norwest Internet firewall.

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

Change Number: CHG0090631

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Internet Access

Change Title: Planned Maintenance to Norwest Internet firewall.

Change Start Date & Time: 18/06/2024 20:00:49 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 18/06/2024 23:30:49 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time:

Outage End Date & Time:

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) - Nil

B2B VPN - May experience a short 5-10 second drop of VPN tunnel connectivity to Norwest DC.

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 prior to this scheduled outage.

SSL VPN Participants: Nil

GASHUB: Nil

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 117061

The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0100 hrs 20/06/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA .

AEMO estimates that, in the absence of sufficient market response by 1600 hrs 19/06/2024, 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

The Rowville - South Morang 500 kV line in the Victoria (VIC) region is planned to be out of service from 1400 hrs to 1630 hrs on 20/06/2024.

A credible contingency event during this planned outage could cause:
- A large reduction in generation in VIC; and/ or
- Restrict power transfer across the VIC - South Australia (SA) interconnector (Heywood interconnector).

Refer AEMO Network Outage Schedule (NOS) for further details.

AEMO 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 0100 hrs 20/06/2024 will be inadequate to maintain sufficient system strength in SA and hence a secure operating state.
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

Refer to market notice 117027

There is an opportunity for testing QNI Minor for flows from Qld to NSW up to 1300 MW on Wednesday 19th June 2024 from 0700 to 1000hrs.

This test includes a trip and reclose of a line in northern NSW.

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: CHG0090782

Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal

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

Change Start Date & Time: 26/06/2024 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 26/06/2024 22:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 26/06/2024 18:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 26/06/2024 21:00:00 AEST

Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: Gas Short Term Trading Market (STTM) services including SWEX and MIS, SPI and SBS will not be available during the outage window in Production.

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 .