A longer-range view of operations at Broken Hill BESS
A brief collation of several key events over recent years in the development and early operations of the Broken Hill BESS.
A brief collation of several key events over recent years in the development and early operations of the Broken Hill BESS.
A quick record of the trip of Loy Yang A1 unit just prior to 08:40 (NEM time) this morning … Friday 11th October 2024:
An update on LinkedIn from Len McLachlan from AGL Energy about a recent trial of two-shifting at Bayswater unit 4 prompts a quick look.
For several reasons (including as prompted by conversations with several different clients in recent days) here’s a review of rebidding at Loy Yang A1 as the unit came offline on Tuesday 20th August 2024.
A quick look at some market data in ez2view, with respect to Loy Yang A1 unit coming offline on Tuesday afternoon 20th August 2024.
A brief follow on article about Loy Yang A station, following the A4 unit trip yesterday, and unsuccessful return to service today.
Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
Using our soon-to-be-released GSD2023, we can compare the market performance of AGL’s Torrens Island BESS against what was published in last week’s half-year results presentation from AGL.
An unfolding story, on Tuesday afternoon 13th Feb 2024 – with all 4 x Loy Yang A units tripping.
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days – and updating Tuesday’s earlier article.
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
An article in the Australian this morning alerted me to yesterday’s Federal Court ruling against AGL Energy for not supplying contingency FCAS services (from Bayswater and Loy Yang A) when enabled by NEMDE. Here’s a quick look…
An article at the end of the week in which AGL Energy announced the establishment of a Structured Transition Agreement (STA) with respect to Loy Yang A and the notice of closure for 30th June 2035.
Liddell Unit 1 ramped down it’s output to 0MW at roughly 10:30am this morning, signaling the full retirement of Liddell Power Station.
A short article to mark the closure of Liddell unit 2 on Wednesday evening, 26th April 2023.
Latest data from AEMO (from Fri 14th April) suggests Liddell unit 4 might close a couple days later than when we’d looked in February.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, takes the release of the GSD2022 as an opportunity to take a look at the past 10 years of performance of the four-unit Liddell Power Station (one unit closed in 2022 and three to close soon in 2023), contrasting against two other black coal-fired stations.
Third article today about major outages – this one looking at current expectations for RTS for Loy Yang A2 after some apparent slippage.
Also on Thursday 29th September 2022 we had AGL Energy’s ‘earlier than previously stated’ closure announcement for Loy Yang A power station.