Worth our readers noting that CS Energy have today published two media releases as follows:
1) Firstly, there is the note ‘Release of Brady Heywood Report and C3 Cooling Tower Report’; and
2) Secondly, the note ‘CS Energy releases plan to be a safer, better business’.
The two reports
Both of these News Releases link to the following two reports:
| The Brady-Heywood Report … about Callide C4 explosive failure (302 pages) |
The HartzEPM Report … about the cooling tower failure affecting Callide C3 (and C4)(115 pages) |
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Download the Full (final) Report, excluding Appendices here:
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Download the Full Report here:
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On Tuesday 25th May 2021 (as the broader system event was happening), we noted ‘Loss of ~2000MW of demand in Queensland on Tuesday 25th May’ … and followed up with dozens of other articles in the >3 years that followed in the collation here. Most recently we noted: 1) the release of the earlier draft of this Brady Report just over 3 weeks ago; and 2) another delay to return-to-service (now out until 31st August 2024). |
Then 17 months later (on 31st October 2022) a partial collapse of a cooling tower supporting Callide C3 took that unit offline. We separately collated articles about this as they were written. Callide C3 came back online 1st April 2024, and has been operating since.
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Response to the reports
Also notable today was the release of CS Energy’s response to these two events, and the reports.
The Media Release itself is worth reading (including with respect to the process following this Infringement Notice from the AER), and it links to this Action Plan:
So CS Energy’s process safety management systems were not where they needed to be and the critical 220 VDC supply to unit C4 was turned off by maintenance staff without the operators that where in charge of the power plant operation knowing. So the insurance payout is lost and the cost is many $100M! It’s time that management was transferred to Snowy Hydro as they are the only public authority with the ability of managing power plant without wrecking it by ignorance(ignorance is only the lack of knowledge).
CS Energy spent $38m of taxpayers’ money hiring lawyers over the past two years, including to fight the release of the landmark report into the company’s woes. The investigative report into the 2021 Callide C explosion compiled by forensic engineer Dr Sean Brady, cost taxpayers a further $10.4m.
Richard Baum.