LIST OF REGIONAL BOUNDARIES AND MARGINAL LOSS FACTORS FOR THE 2011-12 FINANCIAL YEAR PREPARED BY: Electricity System Operations Planning & Performance VERSION: 3.1 DATE: 07/07/2011 FINAL LIST OF REGIONAL BOUNDARIES AND MARGINAL LOSS FACTORS FOR THE 2011-12 FINANCIAL YEAR Contents 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 6 2 Rules requirements .......................................................................................... 6 2.1 Inter-regional loss factor equations ............................................................................. 6 2.2 Intra-regional loss factors ........................................................................................... 6 2.3 Forward-looking Loss Factors .................................................................................... 7 3 Application of the forward-looking loss factor methodology for 2011/12 financial year .................................................................................................................. 7 3.1 Overview of the Forward-looking Loss Factor Methodology ....................................... 7 3.2 Data requirements ...................................................................................................... 7 3.3 Connection point definitions ....................................................................................... 8 3.4 Connection point load data ......................................................................................... 8 3.5 Network representation .............................................................................................. 8 3.6 Treatment of Yallourn Unit 1 ....................................................................................... 8 3.7 Treatment of Bayswater Power Station ...................................................................... 9 3.8 Network augmentations for 2011/12 financial year ..................................................... 9 3.9 Treatment of Basslink ............................................................................................... 11 3.10 Treatment of the Regulated Terranora Interconnector (previously Directlink) ........... 11 3.11 Treatment of the Regulated Murraylink Interconnector ............................................. 12 3.12 New and Recently Commissioned Generating Units ................................................ 12 3.12.1 Queensland ............................................................................................................................... 12 3.12.2 New South Wales ...................................................................................................................... 12 3.12.3 Victoria ...................................................................................................................................... 12 3.12.4 South Australia .......................................................................................................................... 13 3.12.5 Tasmania ................................................................................................................................... 13 3.12.6 New Wind Farms and Other Energy Limited Generation .......................................................... 13 3.13 Generator Unit Capability ......................................................................................... 13 3.14 Embedded Generation ............................................................................................. 13 3.15 Interconnector Capability .......................................................................................... 14 3.16 Data accuracy and due diligence of the forecast data .............................................. 15 3.17 Calculation of intra-regional loss factors ................................................................... 15 3.18 Inter-regional loss factor equations ........................................................................... 16 3.19 Loss models for Controllable Links ........................................................................... 16 3.20 Proportioning Inter-regional Losses to Regions ........................................................ 16 4 Differences in loss factors compared to the 2010/11 financial year ................17 4.1 MLFs ........................................................................................................................ 17 4.1.1 MLFs greater than 1 .................................................................................................................. 17 4.1.2 MLFs less than 1 ....................................................................................................................... 17 4.2 Comparison of 2011/12 MLFs with 2010/11 MLFs.................................................... 18 Document Version: 3.1 07 July 2011 Page 2 of 61 LIST OF REGIONAL BOUNDARIES AND MARGINAL LOSS FACTORS FOR THE 2011-12 FINANCIAL YEAR 4.2.1 South Australia .......................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.2 Victoria ...................................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.3 New South Wales ...................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.4 Queensland ............................................................................................................................... 19 4.2.5 Tasmania ................................................................................................................................... 19 5 Virtual transmission nodes ..............................................................................19 5.1 New South Wales ..................................................................................................... 19 5.2 South Australia ......................................................................................................... 20 5.3 Tasmania ................................................................................................................. 20 6 Region boundaries and regional reference nodes for 2011/12 .......................20 7 Appendix A: Intra-regional loss factors for 2011/12 .........................................21 8 Appendix B: Inter-regional loss factors equations for 2011/12 ........................48 9 Appendix C: Inter-regional loss equations for 2011/12 ....................................52 10 Appendix D: Basslink, Terranora Interconnector and Murraylink loss factor models and loss equations for 2011/12 .......................................................................55 11 Appendix E: The Proportioning Inter-regional Losses to Regions for 2011/12 60 12 Appendix F: Regions and Regional Reference Nodes ....................................60 13 Appendix G: List of New and Modified Connection Points for 2011/12 ...........61 Document Version: 3.1 07 July 2011 Page 3 of 61 LIST OF REGIONAL BOUNDARIES AND MARGINAL LOSS FACTORS FOR THE 2011-12 FINANCIAL YEAR Version Release History VERSION DATE CHANGES Draft regional boundaries and marginal loss factors for the 2011/12 0.1 23/03/2011 financial year 1.0 01/04/2011 Updates to generation profiles of a number of new generators 2.0 18/05/2011 Updates to Proportioning Factors in Appendix E (p. 60) Updates to the MLFs of Shoalhaven and Lower Tumut pump-storage 3.0 29/06/2011 schemes (pp. 6, 7, 19, 30) Updates to the MLFs of QYAR, QYAE and QYAG (pp. 12, 19, 23, 25) Inclusion of newly registered Hepburn Community Wind Farm (Market, 3.1 07/07/2011 Non-scheduled) under “Victoria Embedded Generators” in Appendix A (p 38) Document Version: 3.1 07 July 2011 Page 4 of 61 LIST OF REGIONAL 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