Directions to NSW Load – 5 September 2024

On 5 September 2024, AEMO issued a direction to a New South Wales Market Participant to maintain power system security.

Following a failure of AEMO’s market dispatch systems there was a need to reduce Queensland-New South Wales interconnector (QNI) flows to within secure limits and to arrest declining NEM frequency.

Where the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) intervenes in the National Electricity Market (NEM) through the use of directions, AEMO must publish a report in accordance with National Electricity Rules (NER) clauses 4.8.9(f) and 3.13.6A.

The NEM Event report below satisfies those NER obligations and is based on information available to AEMO at the time of publication: