black coal Archives

17-year trend of aggregated coal unit unavailability as from the Generator Report Card

Fri 14^th June 2019 9:11 AM | Paul McArdle

Some excerpts from the Generator Report Card to sample some of the analysis we performed to assess various aspects of the 'dependability' of coal-fired power stations in the NEM. In this post we highlight...

Five different aspects of assessing the “dependability” of coal-fired power (in the Generator Report Card)

Mon 3^th June 2019 8:53 AM | Paul McArdle

The framework we used to analyse the extent to which coal-fired power is "dependable" in the Generator Report Card, and the extent to which it's been changing.

2018 – the year fossil fuels began an inexorable decline

Thu 7^th February 2019 12:33 PM | Tristan Edis

Guest author, Tristan Edis, takes a look at the changing pattern of generation by fuel type in 2018