Change Number: CHG0100201

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MarketNet

Change Title: Planned maintenance affecting the AEMO Market Network.

Change Start Date & Time: 16/12/2024 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 17/12/2024 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 16/12/2024 15:12:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 16/12/2024 15:13:00 AEST

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: Planned maintenance will be conducted on the 16th of December 2024, between 07:30AM and 05:00PM AEST on the core network infrastructure within the AEMO Market Network in Brisbane.

During there change, there will be two instances of 1-3 second service disruption to MarketNet Services accessed via Brisbane as traffic moves from the active to the standby load balancing unit. All Services should return to normal after this time. Traffic via Sydney will not be affected during this time. AEMO recommends that all market participants with site to site VPN connections currently connected via Brisbane, to switch these connections to the Sydney site as a precaution.

Participants connecting via IPWAN and/or SSL VPN will be automatically connected to the Sydney site and do not need to take any action.

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: CHG0100257

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Local Area Network

Change Title: MarketNet Services via Brisbane service disruption for 1-3 seconds as traffic is failed between highly available load balancing services.

Change Start Date & Time: 12/12/2024 14:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 12/12/2024 16:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 12/12/2024 15:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 12/12/2024 15:01:00 AEST

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: During there change, there will be a 1-3 second service disruption to MarketNet Services accessed via Brisbane as traffic moves from the active to the standby load balancing unit. All Services should return to normal after this time. Traffic via Norwest will not be affected during this time.

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

Network Augmentation Commissioned - NSW Region - 06/12/2024

At 1358 hrs 06/12/2024, the Buronga No.8 330/220 kV transformer has been commissioned.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

Change Number: CHG0100220

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System_PreProd

Change Title: Pre-Production Electricity Market Management System (EMMS) Maintenance - Outages

Change Start Date & Time: 09/12/2024 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 10/12/2024 23:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 09/12/2024 08:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 10/12/2024 23:00:00 AEST

Environment: Pre-Production

Participant Impact and Requirements: This Maintenance activity may cause intermittent outages to below applications during the outage period .

Impacted Systems:
1.EMMS systems (Dispatch/ PASA/ Forecasting/ Settlements)
2.Identity Service will be running only for authentication purposes.
3.Web Portal including menu items (Markets, Internal & Public portal)
4.GSH
5.GBB
6.Any GAS systems that have a NEMA / WARA database connection.
7.MSATS
8.CDR
9.DERR

If any ongoing issues are identified, please contact the AEMO Support Hub 1300 236 600.

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
Adelaide West Terrace (39+ Deg C): 5th Dec
Port Augusta Ap (39+ Deg C): 5th Dec

VIC
Mildura Ap (39+ Deg C): 6th Dec

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

Following review of the operation of the Very Fast FCAS market, from 1300 hrs AEST on 9th December AEMO will increase the cap on dispatch of Very Fast Raise (R1) Contingency FCAS from 375 MW to 425 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

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Refer to market notice 106175

AEMO and Powerlink are continuing to investigate system strength requirements in North Queensland.
Due to commissioning of Clarke Creek wind farm in Far North Queensland, the system normal equations have been revised.



A revision to the constraint equations will be implemented at 1100 hrs on Monday 9th December 2024.

The new combinations have now published in a limits advice document on AEMO's website. For more information refer to the new limits advice: https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/system-operations/congestion-information-resource/limits-advice

This advice contains all the combinations for Queensland for system normal cases. Additional information has been included in the limit advice to clarify the requirement to disconnect all inverters/turbines under certain system conditions.

The constraint equation in the Q-NIL set of the form below will be modified:

-Q_NIL_STRGTH_KBWF
-Q_NIL_STRGTH_MEWF

Two new equations have been added:

-Q_NIL_STRGTH_CKWF
-Q_NIL_STRGTH_CKWF_I

AEMO 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
Port Augusta Ap (39+ Deg C): 5th Dec, 6th Dec

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

SERVICE INTERRUPTION - RESOLVED

The service interruption relating to the Electricity Market Management System service has been resolved.

For further enquiries please contact the AEMO Support Hub

Phone: 1300 236 600

Email: supporthub@aemo.com.au

AEMO IT Duty Manager