Wild price gyrations in Victoria (and elsewhere) today following a station trip at Yallourn

Posted by Paul McArdle Friday, June 21 2013 Topic: Winter 2013 in the NEM

I’ve only had about 2 hours this morning to put this together, and have no more time to analyse today, but the following will be of interest to some of our WattClarity readers:

Or you can view it here on YouTube.

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1 Comment on "Wild price gyrations in Victoria (and elsewhere) today following a station trip at Yallourn"

  1. Paul McArdle | Friday, June 21 2013 at 5:40 pm | Reply

    PS – it’s been highlighted to me that the outage at Yallourn comes coincident with Industrial Relations action onsite, and with a fire that is under investigation at present.

    Here’s some further news at the ABC, and in the Australian.

    If you know more, please do add this in comments below (or let us know offline).

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