Reader Beware … just because you’re reading more about coal unit outages here in recent days, it does not necessarily mean that these outages are happening more frequently!
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A very quick article with this record of the alert from ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget this afternoon noting the trip of Loy Yang A4 from almost full load sometime in the 5-minute period ending 17:51:
Here’s a snapshot of mainland NEM frequency from the monitoring we’re running – noting the sharp drop in frequency around the time of the trip (noting that there may have been other factors involved – I’ve not checked):
Pretty much a standard frequency dip for 500MW loss with plenty of coal/gas/hydro units operating.