Sydney managed to avoid blackouts during the recent heatwave, with energy specialist Dylan McConnell noting the situation could have gone either way. The Albanese government is hoping the national electricity market can hold up without blackouts for the next three months. Aemo issued its first high urgency alerts and requested consumers to reduce energy usage to help maintain supply reliability.
Blackouts , or load-shedding, were avoided during this week’s heatwave in Sydney . ‘It could have gone either way,’ says energy specialist Dylan McConnell. Blackouts , or load-shedding, were avoided during this week’s heatwave in Sydney . ‘It could have gone either way,’ says energy specialist Dylan McConnell.
“LOR2 is when we don’t have enough reserves,” McConnell said. “If something goes wrong, we’re not fine.”To a degree, the government inherited some of the present predicament. As Bowen and other ministers routinely argue, the national electricity market shed 4GW of dispatchable generation - plants that can be switched on or off - in the decade before they took office. Only 1GW was added.to review the NEM beyond 2030 when most remaining coal plants will be shutting.
Half of Victoria’s biggest plant, AGL Energy’s Loy Yang A, should also be back from maintenance by mid-December, restoring its 2,210MW full capacity, a company spokesperson said.With expensive gas often setting the spot wholesale market price for electricity as the “merit order” bidder that all suppliers get paid, households and business end up paying more for their power.
AGL said unit 3 of its Bayswater plant should return 685MW of capacity from Saturday after unplanned work to repair a tube leak. Unit 2, of similar size, is due back 8 December, the spokesperson said.
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