Fast frequency recovery, on Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Fourth article on Wed 3rd April 2024, pertaining to the earlier coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 units at Eraring Power Station.
Fourth article on Wed 3rd April 2024, pertaining to the earlier coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 units at Eraring Power Station.
A first article from me after starting to delve into a 14-hour time series of AEMO’s 4-second data for Tuesday 13th February 2024 (this one a trend of frequency to highlight points of interest).
Grid frequency had dropped to 49.689 Hz. We take an initial look into the timeseries of grid frequency recorded on the day.
Second quick article about 13th February 2024 … with mainland power system frequency dropping through the floor in this ‘Significant power system event’ in Victoria.
Following recent online discussions, Bruce Miller has produced this in-depth analysis of frequency behavior in th NEM.
Allan O’Neil digs through historic FCAS enablement and utilisation levels to examine whether there is an increasing trend in recent years.
Allan O’Neil provides an explainer about how small deviations in supply and demand are managed in the NEM, in order to help us understand the apparent swings in frequency that we noted in QLD last Friday.
Another article today presenting 12 hours of history of System Frequency (to ~14:00 on Friday 3rd February 2023) with a few questions added. Comments welcome!
Dan Lee takes a quick look at 5-second frequency data to show SA’s separation from the rest of the NEM and the ensuing frequency swings on late Saturday afternoon.
Zooming into the ~7 minute period during which the initial event occurred in TAS on Friday 14th October 2022.
Whilst there were many things that went wrong on Tuesday 25th May 2021 (last week), guest author Allan O’Neil highlights that there were at least 4 things that went right – contributing to a much less severe outcome than would otherwise have been the case.
Two brief (but important) observations made possible with a chart published on RenewEconomy with respect to the Hornsdale Power Reserve.
Part 5 in an expanding series, looking at what happened in QLD on Tuesday 25th May 2021 – this one looking at system frequency.
One of the many data sets being crunched as part of our analytical efforts underpinning the development of ‘GenInsights21’ is system frequency. In this short article today, we share some initial observations on how it has been changing.
A pretty rare event in the NEM, when two units trip simultaneously … so a short article on WattClarity as a result.
Paul McArdle recently drew my attention to a short Twitter thread started by David Osmond on the arcane topic of NEM system frequency behaviour: At Paul’s invitation I’ve dived further into this issue to fill in some background, provide…
As time has permitted, I’ve invested some time to prepare this first stage of a review of what went on during the period from 31st Jan 2020 to 17th Feb 2020 – a period during which the South Australian region formed its own frequency island following the transmission line damage. A period we’ve called an ‘accelerated accidental experiment’.
Investing some time over the weekend with a some higher-speed data on output of rooftop solar PV systems across VIC and SA reveals some interesting observations about what happened on Friday 31st January 2020 in conjunction with the transmission damage and Heywood trip.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil delves further into understanding what happened in response to the transmission tower failures on 31st January 2020 that sent system frequency in South Australia and led to a large reversal of flows.
Cautioning readers that I am a novice at reading frequency data in this manner, I take a first look at how the frequency in Melbourne and South Australia varied at the time of the transmission outage at 13:24:30 on Friday 31st January 2020.