A short article to note that Callide C3 came back online in the early hours of this morning, as captured in this ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget alert:
Here’s a trend of output (and bids to 04:00) via the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget in ez2view to 11:40 (NEM time) on Sunday 1st June 2025:
We see it ramped up for a morning peak in price, but has dropped back down to around minimum load with prices dropping below $0/MWh through the solar hours.
PS for Later Coverage
Because they might come in handy later (for us, or for other readers), we’re collating a series of articles below that we noticed later and/or were published after the initial note above on Sunday 1st June:
1) First and foremost, CS Energy published under ‘Latest News’ about ‘Callide C3 unit returns to service’ on Monday 2nd June
2) This triggered other reporting, with these articles amongst what we’ve seen:
(a) On Monday 2nd June, Aaron Kelly published ‘Callide Power Station unit operating again after explosion forced shut down’ for ABC News.
(b) On Tuesday 3rd June, ESD published ‘Callide Unit C3 returns to service after major repairs’.
(c) On Tuesday 3rd June, Fraser Barton published ‘Queensland’s most maligned coal fired power station back online after latest explosions’ for RenewEconomy.
It has dropped back down to around minimum load with prices dropping below $0/MWh!!
Old coal fired units need to operate as constant designed base load units,to run them up and down will wreck them as they approach the end of designed life.