Market Notices

Change Number: CHG0087334
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Firewall
Change Title: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Change Start Date & Time: 27/03/2024 22:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 28/03/2024 02:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 27/03/2024 23:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 27/03/2024 23:10:00 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 15 minutes from 23:30 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 .

Change Number: CHG0086078
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal

Service/Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: EMMS Production Bay transfer

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

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Reclassification of a Non-Credible Contingency Event as a Credible Contingency Event due to Lightning. AEMO considers the simultaneous trip of the following circuits to now be more likely and reasonably possible. Accordingly AEMO has reclassified it as a credible contingency event.

Region: QLD1

Lines: Chalumbin - Turkinje No.7165 132 kV and Chalumbin - Turkinje No.7166 132 kV

Duration: 19/03/2024 13:57 until further notice

Constraint set(s) invoked:
NONE

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AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Reclassification of a Non-Credible Contingency Event as a Credible Contingency Event due to Lightning. AEMO considers the simultaneous trip of the following circuits to now be more likely and reasonably possible. Accordingly AEMO has reclassified it as a credible contingency event.

Region: TAS1

Lines: Farrell - Reece No.1 220 kV and Farrell - Reece No.2 220 kV

Duration: 19/03/2024 13:37 until further notice

Constraint set(s) invoked:
F-T-FARE_N-2 Constraint set contains the following interconnector(s) on the left hand side:
T-V-MNSP1


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AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Reclassification of a Non-Credible Contingency Event as a Credible Contingency Event due to Lightning. AEMO considers the simultaneous trip of the following circuits to now be more likely and reasonably possible. Accordingly AEMO has reclassified it as a credible contingency event.

Region: VIC1

Lines: Eildon PS - Mt Beauty No.1 220 kV and Eildon PS - Mt Beauty No.2 220 kV

Duration: 19/03/2024 12:48 until further notice

Constraint set(s) invoked:
NONE

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Change Number: CHG0078963
Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Cancelled
Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network
Change Title: Annual renewal and update of AEMO's API and WebService server certificate.

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

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE.

Update - Non-credible contingency event - QLD region - 12/03/2024

Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 115596

Based on advice from the asset owner, AEMO no longer considers the trip of Strathmore - Clare South No 7208 132 kV Line CB 72082 at Strathmore as a credible contingency event.

Therefore AEMO cancels the reclassification as a credible contingency event.

Region: QLD

Elements: Strathmore - Clare South No 7208 132 kV Line CB 72082 at Strathmore
Cancellation time : 1130 hrs 19/03/2024
Constraint set(s) invoked: Nil

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Cancellation of reclassification of a Non-Credible Contingency Event as a Credible Contingency Event due to Lightning. AEMO considers the simultaneous trip of the following circuits is no longer reasonably possible. There is no longer any lightning activity in the vicinity of the following lines. Accordingly its classification has reverted to a non-credible contingency event.

Region: NSW1

Lines: Armidale - Dumaresq 8C 330kV and Armidale - Sapphire WF 8E 330kV

Cancellation time: 18/03/2024 15:29

Constraint set(s) revoked:
N-ARDM_ARSR_1PH_N-2 Constraint set contains the following interconnector(s) on the left hand side:
N-Q-MNSP1
NSW1-QLD1


Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 115683

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Change Number: CHG0085822
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Change Title: Pre-Prod MSATS Lifecycle Maintenance
Change Start Date & Time: 19/03/2024 12:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 19/03/2024 21:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 19/03/2024 12:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 19/03/2024 20:00:00 AEST
Environment: Pre-Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: There will be login outages impacting MSATS, OPDMS, NOS, and EMMS Pre-Production web portals. Users are advised to log in before the outage begins and stay logged in. Note that during the MSATS outage, you won't be able to log back in until it's over.
URM outage will occur from 18:00:00 - 18:30:00 AEST, lasting up to 30 minutes. New login sessions into TMM, OPDMS, NOS, or EMMS WebPortal won't be possible during this time, but users already logged in won't be affected.
During the MSATS outage from 12:30:00 - 20:00:00 AEST:
MSATS services like Meter data processing, RM reports, B2B, B2M screen, NMI Discovery, CDR, CDP will be unavailable.
Participant passwords will be retained.
Users logging out or trying to log in during the URM outage can only log in after it's over. Password resets or new account creations during this time will need to be redone.
Plain English constraints won't be available via the EMMS web portal during the URM outage. The redirection menu won't be accessible during the MSATS outage via https://menu.preprod.nemnet.net.au.

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 .