An initial look at the Spot Price spike in NSW at 17:55 on Friday 10th October 2025
There was a short-lived (but interesting) price spike for ENERGY in the NSW region on Friday evening 10th October 2025. Here's a first look.
Bayswater Power Station
Two-shifting again at BW02 on Saturday 11th October 2025
Worth noting that Saturday 11th October 2025 saw Bayswater Unit 2 perform the two-shift shuffle again.
Also difficult to see any fluctuation in Mainland Frequency on Sunday morning 5th October 2025, with BW02 offline (two-shifting)
Not seeing any obvious blip in system frequency (at the time BW02 came offline on Sat 4th Oct 2025) we also looked at the similar outage on Sun 5th Oct 2025.
Difficult to see any fluctuation in Mainland Frequency on Saturday morning 4th October 2025, with BW02 offline (two-shifting)
I was keen to see if there was any noticeable blip in System Frequency resulting from the BW02 unit coming offline on Saturday 4th October 2025 for the brief (two-shift) outage.
Talk about two-shifting … such as with BW02 on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2025
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...
Trading Places … BW01 offline, with BW04 online
With BW04 returned to service on Sat 14th June 2025, worth noting that sibling unit BW01 came offline on Sunday afternoon 15th June 2025.
With some wobbles, Bayswater Unit 4 coming back online – Saturday 14th June 2025
Noting that Bayswater unit 4 had a false (re)start in the early hours of Saturday 14th June 2025.
Do we have enough gas to wait until nuclear comes along?
Tristan Edis of Green Energy Markets discusses the practicalities of the gap that must be filled by the gas sector under the nuclear power timeline proposed by the Federal Opposition.
Three units at Bayswater (temporarily) offline, on Tuesday 15th April 2025
It’s not the first time that it’s happened in the history of the NEM, but worth noting that we're (temporarily) down to 1 x Bayswater unit online at present on Tuesday 15th April 2025.
Afternoon trip of Bayswater unit 3 delivers rapid drop in Mainland Frequency
A quick record of a unit trip at Bayswater Power Station on Wednesday afternoon 5th March 2025.
Stubborn forecast LOR2 for NSW on Friday afternoon/evening 7th February 2025
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...
Operational snags at Bayswater unit 2
We’d seen Bayswater unit 2 come offline this morning, and wondered if we'd not seen the unit bouncing ON-OFF a few times recently.
Some things that have changed, in the outlook for Mon 16th and Tue 17th December 2024 … and what’s not (yet) changed?!
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.
A first look into the LOR3 (a.k.a. ‘load shedding’) forecast for NSW on Monday 16th December 2024
With AEMO forecasting LOR3 (i.e. load shedding) in NSW for periods of time on Monday 16th December 2024, in this WattClarity article we take a first look. More to come *as time permits* (and...
Today’s discussion (at the Senate Committee) of planned or unplanned outages in the NSW supply fleet on Wednesday 27th November 2024
References to WattClarity in today's session of the Senate Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation in Australia (between Matt Canavan and Daniel Westerman) spiked our interest - and, given the topic was NSW unit...
Which units are still offline in NSW and QLD, as of 3:30pm on 27th Nov 2024
A quick look at our generator outages widget from ez2view, to see which units are still offline as of 3:30pm on Wednesday 27th November 2024.
Bayswater Unit 4 begins to return to service – Wednesday morning 20th November 2024
Given forecasts for early next week in NSW, it’s some welcome news to see that the BW04 unit has commenced its return to service process.
Small frequency dip with Bayswater unit 3 tripping offline on Wednesday 2nd October 2024
A short article looking at a small drop in system frequency on Wednesday 2nd October 2024, perhaps related to Bayswater unit 3 tripping offline.
AGL’s successful completion of the first two-shifting trial for Bayswater unit 4 (on 7th September 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.
A look into minimum generation levels at various coal plants, using the GSD2023
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.