Suspension of a market participant from trading in the national electricity market.

AEMO has released the final guidelines and reports as required by the AEMC’s System Security Market Frameworks Review. This includes the latest Power System Model Guidelines, Power System Design and Setting Data Sheets, and the System Strength Impact Assessment Guidelines.

A series of planned and unplanned generation outages over the last few days has resulted in Lack of Reserve (LOR) conditions in the NSW region. However, these conditions did not result in any involuntary load shedding in NSW.

In the 2016 National Transmission Network Development Plan, AEMO identified a Network Support and Control Ancillary Services gap to provide system strength in South Australia, and stated that the gap would be confirmed in 2017 after more detailed analysis was completed.