Figure 3.10: Costs of RERT use
Source: AEMO Activation of unscheduled reserves reports for 30 November 2017 and 19 January 2018, Operating incident report for 24/25 January 2020 and RERT activation estimates reports for 30 December 2019, 4 January, 23 January, and 31 January 2020.
Notes: The RERT was activated twice in 2017/18, twice in 2018/19 and, to date, four times in 2019/20. This chart only includes publicly available costs taken from incident and event reports. AEMO does not publish information about individual RERT provider activations and costs. From 31 October 2019 AEMO is required to report on RERT activity each year with the first report of this kind, covering Q4 2019, published in February 2020. 'Other costs' includes compensation paid to market participants as a result of the intervention.