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Update - Lightning vulnerable equipment in QLD region
Update - Lightning vulnerable equipment in QLD region
Special Reclassification of Transmission Equipment during lightning
Refer to AEMO Electricity Market Notice 115270.
At 1029 hrs 28/02/2024 the Tully - Cardwell No.7389 132 kV Line tripped and auto reclosed and Ross - Woree No. 8905 275 kV Line tripped and auto reclosed.
The cause of the trip was identified as due to lightning.
In accordance with SO_OP_3715, AEMO now considers these lines to be vulnerable due to lightning.
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INC0128270:MSATS Pre-Production FTP is down
SERVICE INTERRUPTION - ALERT
AEMO is experiencing a service interruption relating to the Market Settlement & Transfer Solution service.
AEMO is working on the issue and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
For further enquiries please contact the AEMO Support Hub
Phone: 1300 236 600
Email: supporthub@aemo.com.au
CHG0085909 | Production | Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Firewall
Change Title: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Change Start Date & Time: 13/03/2024 17:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 13/03/2024 23:00:00 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) - 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
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 .
Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA Region
Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA Region
The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0000 hrs 02/03/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA.
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
CHG0085821 | Completed | Pre-Production | Pre-Prod MSATS Lifecycle Maintenance
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal
Service/Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Change Title: Pre-Prod MSATS Lifecycle Maintenance
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
Direction - SA region 29/02/2024
Direction - SA region 29/02/2024
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 1705 hrs on 29/02/2024.
Intervention pricing does not apply to this AEMO intervention event.
Manager NEM Real Time Operations
CHG0082015: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh - Cancelled
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Cancelled
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Firewall
Change Title: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600
Update - Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA region
Update - Possible intervention to manage power system security in SA region
Refer AEMO Electricity Market Notice 115359
The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0900 hrs 01/03/2024 will be inadequate to maintain a secure operating state in SA .
AEMO estimates that, in the absence of sufficient market response by 1700 hrs 29/02/2024, 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
Possible intervention to manage power system security in South Australia (SA) Region
Possible intervention to manage power system security in South Australia (SA) Region
The synchronous generating units currently expected to be synchronised in SA from 0900 hrs 01/03/2024 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