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Market Settlements & Transfer System
Change Number: CHG0039597
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Market Settlements & Transfer System
Change Title: Planned System Maintenance on MSATS Preproduction
Change Start Date & Time: 24/06/2016 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 24/06/2016 14:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 24/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 24/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST
Change Description:
Maintenance is performed periodically on Preproduction Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions (MSATS) to increase reliability, stability and security.
Environment: Pre-Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
No action. Access to all parts of the pre-production Electricity MSATS system will not be available during the outage period. Access should be attempted outside these times.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
Electricity Market Management System
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: Planned System Outage - EMMS PreProduction
Change Start Date & Time: 22/06/2016 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 24/06/2016 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 24/06/2016 13:15:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 24/06/2016 13:30:00 AEST
Change Description:
Maintenance is performed regularly on EMMS Pre-production Systems to reduce security exposure risks, improve reliability and performance.
Environment: Pre-Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
Electricity MMS Pre-Production system will be available during the outage window. However, participants may experience some disconnections.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039537 - Planned System Change - Yearly update of the MPC/CPT values in EMMS Production
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: Planned System Change - Yearly update of the MPC/CPT values in EMMS Production
Change Start Date & Time: 24/06/2016 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 24/06/2016 17:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time:
Outage End Date & Time:
Change Description:
Please see attached Change Notice.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
This change details the implementation of Transmission Loss Factors (TLFs), Interconnector Loss Models (ILMs), and Distribution Loss factors (DLFs) values for the period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
Details of the methodology and specific loss factors are not covered by the change.
Values to be loaded 24th June 2016 effective Date is the 1st July 2016
This change also covers the updating of the following:
Market Price Cap, Market Floor Price and Cumulative Price Threshold values as published on the AEMC website.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039588 - Planned System Change - EMMS Production: Generator Ramp Rate Rule Change
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: EMMS - Dispatch
Change Title: Planned System Change - EMMS Production: Generator Ramp Rate Rule Change
Change Start Date & Time: 21/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 21/06/2016 15:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time:
Outage End Date & Time:
Change Description:
This change is to support the new generator ramp rate rules starting on 1st July 2016.
As part of this change AEMO will publish data informing Participants of their Minimum Ramp Rates including Generator DUID and individual unit max capacities. (Refer to the AEMO Tech Spec 931 re-issued on 3rd June 2016 for more information.)
The new minimum Ramp Rates will become effective and be used in validation from trading day 01/07/16 in Production.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
This rule change results in some DUIDs having a changed Minimum Ramp Rate used in offer validation.
AEMO reminds participants to ensure that any previously accepted offers are revised for compliance with the new Minimum Ramp Rate.
AEMO will contact Participants if they are potentially in breach of the Minimum Ramp Rate rule requirements before the rule becomes effective.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039546 - Planned System Outage due to NOS application version update to 3.0.9 (Pre-Production)
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Network Outage Scheduler
Change Title: Planned System Outage due to NOS application version update to 3.0.9 (Pre-Production)
Change Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 11:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:20:00 AEST
Change Description:
The upgrade will include minor enhancements to AEMO NOS Pre-production user interface
Environment: Pre-Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
Pre-Production NOS will be unavailable during the specified outage times.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039558 - Planned System Outage due to NOS application version update to 3.0.9 (Production)
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Network Outage Scheduler
Change Title: Planned System Outage due to NOS application version update to 3.0.9 (Production)
Change Start Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 22/06/2016 11:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:20:00 AEST
Change Description:
The upgrade will include minor enhancements to AEMO NOS user interface.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
Production NOS will be unavailable during the specified outage times.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039552 - Planned System Outage - NSW MarketNet Load-Balancer - Software Patch Update
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Market Network
Change Title: Planned System Outage - NSW MarketNet Load-Balancer - Software patch update
Change Start Date & Time: 21/06/2016 09:30:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 21/06/2016 14:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 21/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 21/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST
Change Description:
Vendor recommended the patch to be applied to mitigate a number of software bugs and vulnerabilities that may compromise the stability of the load-balancer.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:
IPWAN Participants - Marketnet IPWAN will experience 2 x 30 second disruptions
Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants - Participant connected to the NSW VPN gateway (202.44.78.10) will experience 2 disruptions lasting 30 seconds each.
To avoid disruptions, please connect via the QLD VPN gateway (202.44.76.10) prior to Change start time as mentioned above.
Remote Access VPN Participants - Participants who utilise an AEMO RSA token and the AEMO VPN client software to establish their VPN via the AEMO NSW datacenter VPN termination point (202.44.78.8)
will experience three disruptions lasting 30 seconds each.
Note: Participants are advised to establish their VPN client software connections via the alternate AEMO QLD datacenter VPN endpoint (202.44.76.8) prior to this scheduled outage.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039127 - Planned System Outage to the Energy Forecasting Web Portal
Change Number: CHG0039127
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Energy Forecasting Web Portal
Change Title: Planned System Outage to the Energy Forecasting Web Portal
Change Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST
Change Description:
Update of Forecasting Interactive Website (http://forecasting.aemo.com.au) to prepare for release of 2016 National Electricity Forecasting report.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
Forecasting Interactive Website and associated Administration Webpage may not be available during the deployment window. Users need to try accessing the website after the deployment is completed as mentioned in the timeline.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.
CHG0039217 - Planned System Outage - QLD MarketNet VPN POP
Change Number: CHG0039217
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Market Network
Change Title: Planned System Outage - QLD MarketNet VPN POP
Change Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST
Change Description:
All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.
Participants are advised to transition to AEMO's NSW VPN POP during this outage window to minimize any potential outages.
-Site-to-Site: 202.44.78.10 or
-Remote Access: 202.44.78.8
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.