All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?

Whilst I notice it, worth also adding in a short note with this snapshot from ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view at the 18:00 dispatch interval NEM time looking out into the future in the MT PASA DUID Availability data set*

… * thanks to the ERM Rule Change on that one (shame that Semi-Scheduled units are still invisible

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I’ve highlighted a 4-day period (Tue 4th Feb, Wed 5th Feb, Thu 6th Feb and Fri 7th Feb) that currently shows all 6 x Gladstone units out on Unplanned Outage.

It might have happened in the past due to some common plant component (e.g. something wrong with coal supply, or maybe cooling water (which is sea water in this case)) – but, if it did, I can’t recall if off the top of my head.  Perhaps one of our other readers might recall?

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Paul McArdle
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.

4 Comments on "All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?"

  1. Problems with the EBA negotiations

  2. Industrial action…

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