With soaring temperatures being expected right across the country today, our CEO Paul McArdle took to WattClarity and Twitter yesterday following the AEMO issuing a LOR2 warning for Victoria. Paul noted that Loy Yang A’s Unit 2 was still out of operation as high demand is expected to test the grid. Angela Macdonald-Smith of the Australian Financial Review referenced this is her article “Victorian power grid faces first summer test“:
The operator’s warnings for a possible shortage of reserves on Wednesday in Victoria, even before the forecast higher temperature on Friday ” “show the return of @aglenergy Loy Yang A2 can’t come soon enough,” tweeted electricity market analyst Paul McArdle at globalROAM.