This morning (in the article ‘Looking forward, to Monday 22nd January 2024 in Queensland’) I wrote about the forecast LOR2 condition that the AEMO was warning about at the time – looking ahead to...
A short article to note another view (this one from Clean Energy Finance) on whether Eraring can close in 2025.
A short record of a significant power outage in Western Australia in January 2024.
A quick look (Friday morning 19th January) towards Monday evening 22nd January 2024 in Queensland.
A short summation of where demand landed in QLD on Thursday evening 18th January 2024.
A third article (first on the day) looking at tight supply-demand balance in the QLD 'Economic Island' on Thursday 18th January 2024
A second article looking at forecast tight supply-demand balance in Queensland on Thursday 18th Jan 2024.
A short note about upcoming proceedings in the Federal Court (relating to Callide C3 and Callide C4) for next week.
A first article about forecast high temperatures (hence high demand, and also potentially LOR levels) for Queensland on Thursday 18th January 2024 ... and also Fri 19th and Mon 22nd.
We probably should have noted this at the time, but worth linking here to this short report by the AER, that was published on 15th January 2024.
A short note (Monday 15th January 2024) about delays in return to service for both of Callide C3 and Callide C4 units.
Pointing WattClarity readers to FERC's Final Report into Winter Storm Elliott (the Christmas 2022 storm that contributed to power outages for millions of electricity customers in the Eastern half of North America).
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 - this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
This article (Part 3) follows on from Part 1 and Part 2, which looked at four successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days - and updating Tuesday's earlier article.
An article from RenewEconomy alerts me to yesterday's fire at the (in commissioning) Mannum Solar Farm 2 in South Australia. We take a quick initial look.
Today we take a look back at the operation of Stanwell unit 1 over the past 3 years ... but particularly since its return from a Major Outage in September 2023
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
A short (and belated) article about the CSIRO's GenCost draft report ... and some associated media coverage.