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CHG0098814 | Production | MSATS and eMDM November Maintenance Release
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Change Title: MSATS and eMDM November Maintenance Release
Change Start Date & Time: 27/10/2024 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 27/10/2024 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 27/10/2024 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 27/10/2024 14:00:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: Users will not be able to access MSATS during the outage period.
Meter data processing and RM reports will not be available during the outage period.
User Rights Management (URM) will continue to operate, however the administration screens will not be accessible.
MSATS B2B/B2M Transactions and B2B MSATS Screens will be unavailable during this outage
NMI Discovery will not be available during the outage period.
CDR and CDP will not be available during the outage period.
NEM Local Temperature Alerts for SA from 14 Oct 2024 to 18 Oct 2024
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): 17th Oct
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
Heywood testing (SA to Vic) 11th October 2024
There is an opportunity for testing Heywood Interconnector (HIC) flow from South Australia to Victoria above 450MW and Victoria to South Australia above 450MW on 11th October from 8:00hrs to 19:00hrs
This test includes a trip and reclose of a line in South Australia.
Please also refer to the published formal PEC Stage 1 and HIC capacity release testing information at the following link https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/stakeholder_consultation/consultations/nem-consultations/2023/project-energyconnect-stage-1-and-hic-capacity-release/pec-stage-1-and-hic---final-test-program.pdf?la=en.
Ben Blake
AEMO Operations
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Moorabool to Sydenham 500 kV No.2 line - VIC region - 09/10/2024
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Moorabool to Sydenham 500 kV No.2 line - VIC region - 09/10/2024
A planned outage of Moorabool to Sydenham 500 kV No.2 line in the VIC region was scheduled from 0600 hrs 01/10/2024 to 2030 hrs 11/10/2024.
The outage has been completed and Moorabool to Sydenham 500 kV No.2 line returned to service at 1940 hrs 09/10/2024
Constraint set(s) revoked: V-MLSY_NOEMTT_R
Manager NEM Real Time Operations
CHG0098496 | Production | QLD Marketnet Router Replacement
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: 19/10/2024 14:00:53 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 19/10/2024 19:00:53 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 on the 19th October 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.
** FAILURE TO ENSURE VPN FAILOVER WILL RESULT IN LOSS OF MARKETNET CONNECTIVITY **
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 .
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Bannaby -Sydney West 39 330 kV line - NSW region - 03/10/2024
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Bannaby -Sydney West 39 330 kV line- NSW region - 03/10/2024
A planned outage of Bannaby -Sydney West 39 330 kV line in the NSW region was scheduled from 0700 hrs 16/09/2024 to 1600 hrs 11/10/2024.
The outage has been completed and Bannaby -Sydney West 39 330 kV line returned to service at 0920 hrs 03/10/2024
Constraint set revoked: N-BYSW_39_15M
Manager NEM Real Time Operations
CHG0098133:NEM Reform - RMI (Retail Market Improvements) MSATS 54.0 - Completed
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal
Service/Component: MSATS - Market Settlement & Transfer System
Change Title: NEM Reform - RMI (Retail Market Improvements) MSATS 54.0
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
Heywood testing (SA to Vic) 30th September 2024
There is an opportunity for testing Heywood Interconnector (HIC) flow from South Australia to Victoria above 450MW and Victoria to South Australia above 450MW on 30th September from 9:00hrs to 17:00hrs
This test includes a trip and reclose of a line in South Australia.
Please also refer to the published formal PEC Stage 1 and HIC capacity release testing information at the following link https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/stakeholder_consultation/consultations/nem-consultations/2023/project-energyconnect-stage-1-and-hic-capacity-release/pec-stage-1-and-hic---final-test-program.pdf?la=en.
Ben Blake
AEMO Operations
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Stockdill - Upper Tumut 1 330 kV line- NSW region - 29/09/2024
Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Stockdill - Upper Tumut 1 330 kV line - NSW region - 29/09/2024
At 0313 hrs 29/09/2024 there was an unplanned outage of Stockdill - Upper Tumut 1 330 kV line.
The following constraint set invoked at 0320 hrs 29/09/2024
N-SDUT_1
This constraint set contains equations with the following interconnectors on the LHS.
V-S-MNSP1
VIC1-NSW1
Refer to the AEMO Network Outage Scheduler for further information.
Manager NEM Real Time Operations