Pre-production Refresh
AEMO Australian Energy Market Operator periodically refreshes the pre-production system with data from the production system. An outage of up to five days can occur to the pre-production environment during this period. Participant access is not restricted. However, AEMO does not guarantee the pre-production data content or system availability. During the refresh, access to other AEMO systems such as AWEFS Australian Wind Energy Forecasting System. Established in response to the growth in intermittent generation in the NEM, and the increasing impact this growth was having on NEM forecasting processes. The system aims to provide better forecasts that will drive improved efficiency of overall NEM dispatch and pricing, and permit better network stability and security management., EMMS Electricity Market Management System (formerly MMS); software, hardware, network and related processes., OPDMS Operations and Planning Data Management System. A software system that supports the planning and operations functions in an electricity market environment., and STTM Short Term Trading Market. A wholesale market that facilitates short-term gas trading between gas shippers and users. STTM hubs operate in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney. may be intermittently affected.
During a refresh, AEMO expects participants to:
- Observe the backup production date when the data is applied to the pre-production environment.
- Based on AEMO’s project changes production backup date, review if you need to refresh your pre-production data from your production system to align with AEMO’s pre-production. How you do the refresh depends on the configuration of your systems.
EMMS and Retail Pre-production Refresh
AEMO refreshes the EMMS and Retail pre-production databases with production data from 4 March – 8 March 2024. During this period, the pre-production database is unavailable to the participants.
The following dates are when the production extract is taken and applied to pre-production:
- Wholesale: 7 February 2024
- Retail: 4 March 2024
MSATS Snapshot report
Because participants' systems are configured differently, you need to assess the impact of a pre-production refresh on your systems and make a business decision Energy Rules Terms if you need to apply an MSATS Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions. The procedures published by AEMO under clause 7.2.8 of the National Electricity Rules, which include those governing the recording of financial responsibility for energy flows at a connection point, the transfer of that responsibility between market participants, and the recording of energy flows at a connection point. report. If you feel your production data is very misaligned with AEMO’s, you can request a Snapshot report, otherwise you can keep it up-to-date using C1, C4, Change requests, and Notifications.
Wholesale electricity refresh timeline
Any transactions or data changes made in the pre-production between 7 February to 7 March are overwritten by the 7 February production data copy.
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Tasks |
Start |
End |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
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Production copy collection |
7 February |
7 February |
7 February 10.53 am Market Time |
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Pre-prod Database refresh, preparation work |
26 February |
1 March |
Pre-prod environment is available |
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Pre-prod DB refresh work (Pre-prod outage) |
4 March |
8 March |
Pre-prod outage, applications are shut down on 4 March |
|
Post refresh work |
11 March |
15 March |
Pre-prod environment available |
Retail electricity refresh timeline
The data is extracted from production on the 4 March and loaded into pre-production.
Any transactions or data changes made in production from the 4th of March 2024 will not reflect in the pre-production environment.
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Tasks |
Start |
End |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
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Outage for Retail Refresh (MSATS and EMDM) |
4 March |
8 March |
Retail Backup and Application showdown: 4 March ~9.00am Market Time |
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Retail Pre-production is available |
11 March |