{"id":29914,"date":"2018-01-19T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29914"},"modified":"2018-01-19T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:50:09","slug":"peak-heat-electricity-prices-lifting-off-industry-shutting-off-in-australia-hospitals-switching-off-lights-code-yellow-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29914","title":{"rendered":"Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, \u201cCode Yellow Alert\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, \u201cCode Yellow Alert\u201d.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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UPDATE<\/strong>: MELBOURNE hospitals are enacting emergency procedures to prepare for the potential loss of power<\/a>.<\/strong> Hospitals are switching off non-essential electrical equipment, including some lights, to minimize energy use. This is a \u201cCode Yellow\u201d alert asking hospitals to check their back up generators are ready.\u00a0 The Victorian Minister insists this is not about the \u201cthreat\u201d of blackouts, but because hospitals need to be \u201cgood corporate citizens\u201d. Pull the other one. At the very least, this is about reducing electricity bills. \u00a0 h\/t Chris in Harvey Bay.<\/p>\n

See further UPDATES on \u201cThe art of blaming coal\u201d at the bottom.<\/p>\n

How much fun can you have? The AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) projects that as temperatures hit 42C in Victoria, prices are forecast to rise over 100 fold. The AEMO is furiously busy issuing market notices.<\/a><\/p>\n

The ABC tells us it is 42C<\/a>, that Portland Alumina has reduced production, but for an \u2018undisclosed price\u2019 (why can\u2019t taxpayers know what they are paying this group, not<\/em> to produce aluminium today?) Meanwhile the AEMO has put the RERT plan into action: \u201cUnder the RERT scheme, AEMO has contracted 884 megawatts of \u201cdemand side response\u201d across Victoria, NSW and South Australia.<\/em>\u201d Translated, that means the AEMO has organised 884MW of controlled blackouts to prevent the system breaking. What\u2019s the cost!<\/p>\n

For the next three hours Victoria is short of reserve by an eye-watering 1090MW. There is an Actual Lack of Reserve, level 1 (LOR1): \u201cThe Actual LOR1 condition is forecast to exist until 1800 hrs. The contingency capacity reserve required is 1120 MW<\/strong>. The minimum reserve available is 32 MW.<\/strong> \u201c<\/em> South Australia has been upgraded to a LOR2 (2nd level) requiring 350MW but having only 32MW available. (Why the exact same number?). The next level up, LOR3 would\u00a0 mean \u201cunexpected load shedding blackouts are likely.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

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Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, \u201cCode Yellow Alert\u201d. UPDATE: MELBOURNE hospitals are enacting emergency procedures to prepare for the potential loss of power. Hospitals are switching off non-essential electrical equipment, including some lights, to minimize energy use. This is a \u201cCode Yellow\u201d alert asking hospitals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,18012,1103,18011,17410,1575],"class_list":["post-29914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-australian-energy-market-operator","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-prices","tag-jo-nova","tag-power-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29915,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions\/29915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}