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.
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.
A broader look at what the extended outage at Loy Yang A unit 2 seems to be having on the spot and financial markets into the future, via AEMO MT PASA data, and via the ASX Energy’s futures price data.
A short note today (thanks to a tip by Thomas MacDonald) about a ‘relatively urgent’ rule change request by Delta Electricity that might help Vales Point operate into 2025.
On Friday evening (28th May) and again this evening (Sun 30th May) my phone buzzed plenty of times – due to price volatility, and also alerting on low IRPM (enabled with Callide units offline, and low wind harvest at peak demand time).
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