Notifications of Facility retirements

The Minister for Energy amended the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) Rules on 11 February 2020 to implement changes to the Reserve Capacity Price from the 2019 Reserve Capacity Cycle. As part of these changes, a Market Participant is required to provide three years’ notice of a Facility ceasing operations permanently. AEMO must publish the details of the retirement on the Market Website. Following modifications in clause 4.4A.2. of the WEM Rules on 1 December 2022, additional information is now included in the notice including Network Access Quantity (NAQ).

AEMO considers the following notices to be notifications under clause 4.4A.1 of the WEM Rules: · On 21 June 2024, Bluewaters Power 1 Pty Ltd. Notified AEMO that it intends to retire GRIFFIN_DSP_01.

• On 21 June 2024, Bluewaters Power 1 Pty Ltd. Notified AEMO that it intends to retire GRIFFIN_DSP_01. 
• On 11 April 2022, Landfill Gas and Power Pty Ltd notified AEMO that it intends to retire KALAMUNDA_SG.
• On 28 October 2021, Synergy notified AEMO that it intends to retire PPP_KCP_EG1 and PPP_KCP_IL1.
• On 26 March 2020, Synergy notified AEMO that it intends to retire MUJA_G5 and MUJA_G6.

In accordance with clause 4.4A.2 of the WEM Rules, the relevant details can be found in the link below: