We noticed the debilitating uncertainty that the folks at Currently Speaking suffer from (and wrote about here), so we thought we’d take pity on them with this quick note (about BW01 trip this morning).
David Leitch reflects on how coal generators have adapted to a changing NEM, drawing on time-of-day profiles, and data from our GSD, and explains why — despite that flexibility — the underlying economics are becoming increasingly fragile as batteries reshape the evening peak.
Bayswater unit 2 is in the process of returning to service on Friday morning 19th December 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.
Worth noting that Saturday 11th October 2025 saw Bayswater Unit 2 perform the two-shift shuffle again.
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.
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.
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.
With BW04 returned to service on Sat 14th June 2025, worth noting that sibling unit BW01 came offline on Sunday afternoon 15th June 2025.
Noting that Bayswater unit 4 had a false (re)start in the early hours of Saturday 14th June 2025.
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.
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.
A quick record of a unit trip at Bayswater Power Station on Wednesday afternoon 5th March 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...
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.
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.
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 as situations change, etc...).
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 outages on Wednesday 27th November 2024, we took a quick look.
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.
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.