Unplanned outage on Yallourn Unit 2 extended another ~month (with new RTS expectation 22nd October 2025)

Two days ago (on Thursday 28th August 2025) we noted ‘Unplanned outage on Yallourn Unit 2 pushed out ~2 weeks (with new RTS Thursday 25th September 2025)’.

Outage extends further, in AEMO data

Well, it seems that the full extent of the damage is becoming clearer now that the unit’s cooled (perhaps enough to lift the cover of the LP turbine, at this point) – because

… as we see here in the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view at the 15:40 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Saturday 30th August 2025:

With respect to this image:

1)  Remember that the ‘Grid’ view of this widget allows one to ‘look up a vertical’ in order to see ‘that other dimension of time’

2)  In this case we see it was the MT PASA DUID Availability data for 12:00 yesterday (Friday 29th August 2025) that saw the outage extended … with new return to service expectation not until 22nd October 2025.

Information elsewhere?

For earlier articles we’d looked elsewhere to see if there was other reporting about what happened with the unit, but could not find any.

Information from EnergyAustralia?

I’ve not seen anything on the EnergyAustralia media page, or a few other locations I looked.

Information in other Media?

I’ve also not seen anything else in any media articles.