We’re not going to get into the habit of noting each time it happens (as it is likely to be of increasing frequency), but given the general interest in what happened last weekend, worth noting that Saturday 11th October 2025 saw Bayswater Unit 2 perform the two-shift shuffle again – as captured in a series of ‘Notification’ widget alerts in ez2view:
From this we see that:
The unit came off in the 5-minute period prior to 08:06 (NEM time); and
Was back online in the 5-minute period prior to 14:06 (NEM time); and
Here’s the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget in ez2view filtered to BW02 and looking back 30 days:
A drop to lower load on Monday 15th September 2025 that we did not investigate (in part because it coincided with the CEC’s 2025 QCES, that we have written about).
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Following the published note of scepticism/concern about the energy transition from several industry CEOs in the AFR on Friday, we take a quick look at the replacement capacity needs just for Loy Yang A power station to illustrate the enormous scale of the challenge.
Today’s LinkedIn update from Geoff Eldridge at GPE about two-shifting at BW02 (such as on Sat 4th Oct 2025 and Sun 5th Oct 2025) coincides with other investigations, and prompts me to take a look.
Earlier this morning, we posted about deeper LOR3 forecast for Mon 16th and Tue 17th Dec 2024 … and promised to take a look at ‘what’s changed?’. That’s what we do here.
At 10:42 (NEM time) this morning the AEMO published MN124235 pertaining to tomorrow (Friday 7th February 2024) for forecast LOR2 in NSW. So we take a quick look…
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Is VP6 working at only half capacity?