Market Notices

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Actual Lack Of Reserve Level 3 (LOR3) in the VIC region - 13/02/2024

Customer load shedding of non-interruptible load is occurring in the VIC region as a result of a shortfall of available capacity reserves.

An Actual LOR3 condition has been declared under clause 4.8.4(b) of the National Electricity Rules for the VIC region from 1420 hrs.
The Actual LOR3 condition is not forecast in Pre Dispatch.

The maximum load to be interrupted is up to 450 MW from 1420 hrs 13/02/2024

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Variation to FCAS regulation raise requirements: NEM Mainland - 13/02/2024

FCAS Raise regulation requirements have been increased.to manage frequency.

The following constraint set has been invoked.

F-MAIN_RREG_0450 at 1200 hrs.


Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

AEMO's weather service provider has issued forecast temperatures equal to or greater than the NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels for listed weather stations below.

SA
Clare High School (39+ Deg C): 12th Feb
Port Augusta Ap (39+ Deg C): 12th Feb, 13th Feb

VIC
Mildura Ap (39+ Deg C): 12th Feb, 13th Feb

The NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels are:

Launceston Ti Tree Bend: 33 Deg C, Dalby Airport: 37 Deg C, for all other selected weather stations: 39 Deg C.

AEMO requests Market Participants to:

1. review the weather forecast in the local area where their generating units / MNSP converter stations are located and,

2. if required, update the available capacity in their dispatch offers or availability submissions consistent with the forecast temperatures.

Further information is available at:

https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/nem-forecasting-and-planning/forecasting-and-reliability/projected-assessment-of-system-adequacy/nem-local-temperature-alerts

AEMO Operations Planning

Change Number: CHG0083624
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Gas Hub

Change Title: A production site transfer of the Electricity and Gas B2B Hub will be carried out to facilitate maintenance activities.

Change Start Date & Time: 18/02/2024 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 18/02/2024 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time:
Outage End Date & Time:
Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: The following impacts are expected during this maintenance:
- All access to the Electricity B2B Hub will be unavailable.
- All access to the Gas B2B Hub and all ebXML gateways (AEMOMIBB, AGNLGWY, LVI & VENCORP) will be unavailable. CATS and MDMT transactions for VIC/QLD will be delayed during the maintenance window.
- Users are not required to take any action due to this change, however will need to enact manual workarounds for the outage period.

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

AEMO's weather service provider has issued forecast temperatures equal to or greater than the NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels for listed weather stations below.

SA
Port Augusta Ap (39+ Deg C): 11th Feb, 12th Feb

VIC
Mildura Ap (39+ Deg C): 12th Feb, 13th Feb

The NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels are:

Launceston Ti Tree Bend: 33 Deg C, Dalby Airport: 37 Deg C, for all other selected weather stations: 39 Deg C.

AEMO requests Market Participants to:

1. review the weather forecast in the local area where their generating units / MNSP converter stations are located and,

2. if required, update the available capacity in their dispatch offers or availability submissions consistent with the forecast temperatures.

Further information is available at:

https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/nem-forecasting-and-planning/forecasting-and-reliability/projected-assessment-of-system-adequacy/nem-local-temperature-alerts

AEMO Operations Planning

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

AEMO's weather service provider has issued forecast temperatures equal to or greater than the NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels for listed weather stations below.

SA
Port Augusta Ap (39+ Deg C): 11th Feb, 12th Feb

The NEM Local Temperature Alert Levels are:

Launceston Ti Tree Bend: 33 Deg C, Dalby Airport: 37 Deg C, for all other selected weather stations: 39 Deg C.

AEMO requests Market Participants to:

1. review the weather forecast in the local area where their generating units / MNSP converter stations are located and,

2. if required, update the available capacity in their dispatch offers or availability submissions consistent with the forecast temperatures.

Further information is available at:

https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/nem-forecasting-and-planning/forecasting-and-reliability/projected-assessment-of-system-adequacy/nem-local-temperature-alerts

AEMO Operations Planning

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Refer to market notice 113265

There is an opportunity for testing QNI Minor for flows from NSW to Qld up to 750 MW on Wednesday 7th February 2024 from 1400 to 1800hrs.

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: CHG0082609
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Change Title: MSATS-CATS Production Maintenance
Change Start Date & Time: 18/02/2024 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 18/02/2024 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 18/02/2024 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 18/02/2024 14:00:00 AEST

Environment: Production

The change has some login outages that are below and will impact participants logging into the web portal for MSATS, OPDMS, NOS and EMMS production environments.
AEMO recommends users who need to use these AEMO services, login prior to the start of the outage and remain logged in.
NOTE: If you log out of this session, you will be unable to log back in until the completion of the outage.
A URM outage will occur between 11:00 - 11:30 AEST and have an expected outage duration of upto 15 minutes. During this time users will not be able to have new login sessions into TMM, OPDMS, NOS or EMMS WebPortal.

The MSATS outage is 10:00 - 14:00 AEST which is the agreed maintenance window.
Participants should be aware that: MSATS, Meter data processing, RM reports, B2B, B2M screen, NMI Discovery, CDR, CDP will not be available Participant passwords will be retained. Users that log out and users that try to log in once the URM outage has commenced will only be able to log in after URM outage is complete. Any password resets or new account creations completed during the URM outage window will need to be redone MSATS FTP sessions will be disabled during outage Wholesale MMS FTP will still be available .

The redirection menu will be unavailable during the MSATS outage timeframe Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 648.

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Following review of the operation of the Very Fast FCAS market, from 1300 hrs AEST on Monday 12 Febraury AEMO will:

Increase the cap on dispatch of Very Fast Lower (L1) Contingency FCAS from 100 MW to 125 MW

Retain the cap on dispatch of Very Fast Raise (R1) Contingency FCAS at 225 MW

No other changes to the dispatch of Very Fast FCAS or FCAS constraint equation changes will be made on this date.

For information on the Fast Frequency Response (FFR) initiative please visit the website at: https://www.aemo.com.au/initiatives/major-programs/fast-frequency-response

Andrew Groom
AEMO Operations