Callide C3 back online on Monday morning, 26th July 2021

Posted by Paul McArdle Monday, July 26 2021 Topic: 2021 - 25th May - Callide C4 Explosion, Fire and Outage, Winter 2021 in the NEM

In this article published around 18:00 yesterday (Sunday 25th July 2021) I mentioned that ‘it seems like we’re getting quite close to seeing output’ for the Callide C3 unit – which tripped offline on Tuesday 25th May 2021 in conjunction with the Callide C4 Catastrophe (i.e. 2 months earlier).

As shown in the snapshot below of the ‘Unit Dashboard’ widget in ez2view, the unit is back online this morning:

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We see that the unit did come online earlier overnight – but tripped at 00:40 and the corresponding rebid at 00:34 referenced ‘0033P Technical issue – H2 cooling SL’.

A second attempt from 04:30 seems to have gone more successfully, at least to this point 2 hours later, with the unit above 300MW and increasing towards maximum capacity of 466MW.

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Given the general level of interest, I expect there might be some form of news announcement here on the CS Energy website sometime later today – but there’s nothing there at present…

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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.

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