Worth a short note with this snapshot from the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget from ez2view at 19:00 (NEM time) on Thursday 12th June 2025 to highlight the short-lived return to service at YWPS4:
We can see that the unit:
1) Came back online yesterday evening (Wednesday 11th June 2025) at around 22:00 … thereby missing out on the revenue opportunities that evening; and also
2) The unit came offline today around 15:30 … so also missing the ‘higher and longer’ period of volatility this evening.
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients.
Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.
On Friday evening (28th May) and again this evening (Sun 30th May) my phone buzzed plenty of times – due to price volatility, and also alerting on low IRPM (enabled with Callide units offline, and low wind harvest at peak demand time).
Partly prompted by a comment yesterday from a WattClarity reader (Liam), and powered by ‘next day public’ data, we take a look at Yallourn Power Station on Tuesday 12th November 2024.
Two large thermal generating units in Victoria with combined capacity of over 800 MW have recently experienced major electrical faults each requiring many months to repair. Previous WattClarity posts have covered initial assessments of the outages of AGL’s 530 MW Loy…
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