Market Notices

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

In order to maintain the power system in a secure operating state in the SA region, AEMO has invoked automated constraint set CA_BRIS_55306556 from 1150 hrs until further notice.

This constraint set contains equations with the following interconnector on the LHS;

V-SA

Refer to AEMO Network Outage Scheduler (NOS) for further information.

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AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Tamworth No1 SVC Protection system - NSW region - 15/04/2024

At 1635 hrs 15/04/2024 there was a short notice outage of Tamworth No1 SVC protection system.

The following constraint set(s) invoked at 1650 hrs 15/04/2024
N-TW_SVC

This constraint set(s) contains equations with the following interconnectors on the LHS.
N-Q-MNSP1,NSW1-QLD1

Refer to the AEMO Network Outage Scheduler for further information.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Tamworth No1 SVC - NSW region - 15/04/2024

At 1155 hrs 15/04/2024 there was an unplanned outage of Tamworth No1 SVC.

The following constraint set(s) invoked at 1200 hrs 15/04/2024
N-TW_SVC

This constraint set(s) contains equations with the following interconnectors on the LHS.
N-Q-MNSP1,NSW1-QLD1

Refer to the AEMO Network Outage Scheduler for further information.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

Change Number: CHG0088121
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Change Title: Production MSATS Lifecycle Maintenance
Change Start Date & Time: 21/04/2024 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 22/04/2024 12:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 21/04/2024 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 21/04/2024 22:00:00 AEST

Environment: Production

The change will impact participants logging into the web portal for MSATS, OPDMS, NOS and EMMS Production environments.
AEMO recommends users who need to use these AEMO services, login prior to the start of the outage and remain logged in.

The URM DB will be placed into maintenance mode from 11:15 to 16:30 AEST, users can can login in and authenticate but cannot modify credentials or create new logins.
A URM OUTAGE will occur between 16:30:00 - 17:00:00 AEST. During this time users will not be able to have create a new login sessions into TMM, OPDMS, NOS or EMMS WebPortal. Users who are already logged in will not be impacted.
An MSATS outage will occur from 10:00:00 - 20:00:00 AEST.

Participants should be aware that:
o MSATS, Meter data processing, RM reports, B2B, B2M screen, NMI Discovery, CDR, CDP will not be available
o Participant passwords will be retained.
o Users that log out and users that try to log in once the URM outage has commenced will only be able to log in after URM outage is complete. Users that are already logged in before the outage will not be impacted.
o Plain English constraints will not be available during the URM outage timeframe via the EMMS web portal.
o The redirection menu will be unavailable i.e. - https://menu.prod.nemnet.net.au.

Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Armidale 1 330kV SVC - NSW region - 15/04/2024

A planned outage of Armidale 1 330kV SVC in the NSW region was scheduled from 0700 hrs 15/04/2024 to 1500 hrs 20/04/2024.

The outage has been cancelled at 0700 hrs 15/04/2024

Constraint set(s) revoked: N-AR_VC1
This constraint set(s) contains equations with the following interconnectors on the LHS:
N-Q-MNSP1
NSW1-QLD1

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

Change Number: CHG0088138
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Firewall
Change Title: Brisbane MarketNet Firewall Refresh
Change Start Date & Time: 20/04/2024 09:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 20/04/2024 15:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 20/04/2024 13:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 20/04/2024 13:40:00 AEST

Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:

IPWAN Participants - Nil

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants (IPSEC) - Up to 6 hours for participants who have established their VPN connection/s via the AEMO QLD datacenter termination point (202.44.76.10) only - All L2L connections should be established to both QLD / NSW.

Note: Participants are encouraged to ensure their VPN connections are already established or are configured (as per AEMO best practice) to automatically failover to the alternate AEMO NSW datacenter termination point (202.44.78.10) prior to this scheduled outage.

B2B VPN - Up to 30 minutes outage to TNSPs with B2B VPN to AEMO QLD Datacentre if VPN connection is only terminating in QLD only

SSL VPN Participants: Up to 30 minutes outage to TNSPs with B2B VPN to AEMO QLD Datacentre if VPN connection is only terminating in QLD only

Expecting an impact to the below services for approximately 10 minutes from 13:30 AEST:
RTMS UI
WEMDE UI - General Instance
WASM MPI

Other Impacts will have been communicated in advance.
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: CHG0087945
Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal

Service/Component: EMS NEM - Network Outage Scheduler (NOS)

Change Title: Planned System Maintenance activity.
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

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Inter-regional transfer limit variation - Hazelwood - South Morang No. 1 500 kV Line - Vic region - 11/04/2024

A planned outage of Hazelwood - South Morang No. 1 500 kV Line in the Vic region was scheduled from 0630 hrs 11/04/2024 to 1830 hrs 11/04/2024.

The outage has been completed and Hazelwood - South Morang No. 1 500 kV Line returned to service at 1450 hrs 11/04/2024.

Constraint set revoked: V-HWSM

Manager NEM Real Time Operations

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Inter-Regional Transfer limit variation - Directlink - NSW Region

There has been an unplanned outage of the No 3 Leg of Directlink .

The following constraint set was invoked at 0225 hrs 11/04/2024

N-X_MBTE_2

The constraint set contains the following interconnector on the left hand side.

N-Q-MNSP1

Refer AEMO Network Outage Scheduler (NOS) for further details.

Manager NEM Real Time Operations