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Originally Posted by The_bluester
Interesting to hear on the radio on my way home from work that the AEMO defence (if you can call it that) amounts to "we misjudged the likely demand"
The market operator (which answers to the federal government) can't get it right but the federal government criticises the state government (when they are not blaming renewables) for not declaring a state of emergency to wrest control from their own controlling body!
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Hi Paul,
Indeed.
The Australian electricity market is governed by a document called the National Electricity Rules.
Chapter 4 is devoted to Power System Security.
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Originally Posted by National Electricity Rules
Chapter 4
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Purpose
(a) This Chapter:
(1) provides the framework for achieving and maintaining a secure power system;
(2) provides the conditions under which AEMO can intervene in the processes of the spot market and issue directions to Registered Participants so as to maintain or re-establish a secure and reliable power system;
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This means that the AEMO is responsible for maintaining the security of
power supply and it is they who are responsible on a minute-by-minute
basis to intervene and ask for a power plant to come online.
The rules can be found here -
http://www.aemc.gov.au/Energy-Rules/...les-Version-80
So when Federal Minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg,
as quoted on ABC news says, "Under the rules, it is solely up to the
South Australian Government to decide if there was an emergency,
and in doing so be in a position to direct Pelican Point to supply", he
is not being entirely honest.
There was no state of emergency in SA as there is no state of emergency
in NSW today.
So there is no requirement for a minister within a state government to
intervene and request for additional power.
Under the National Electricity Rules, that is what exactly AEMO is there
to do. The buck stops with them.
Either that or we set a new precedent and declare every hot
day that ever happens a 'Declared State of Emergency".
But it might be easier to replace the Federal Minister for the Environment
and Energy for someone who has actually read the National Electricity Rules.