Outage at Vales Point unit 5 extended – return to service now not expected until 15th December 2025

At 12:57 this afternoon (Friday 5th September 2025) we published the article ‘Vales Point unit 5 (partly unplanned) outage – return to service currently expected 9th November 2025’.  That article used a snapshot various widgets in ez2view to highlight that at that time, the expected return to service date was 9th November 2025.

As it happened, coincident with the article going live, the expected duration of the outage pushed out by more than a month – with return to service now not expected until 15th December 2025.  We can see this in this updated (zoomed in) view of the MT PASA DUID Availability data set in ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view:

Remember that this widget allows one to ‘look up a vertical’ in order to see ‘that other dimension of time’ .  In the top row of the grid, we can see the red slice (i.e. Availability = 0MW) stretching out further than had previously been the case.

Nothing further, at this point.