The return to service of Callide B2 and C4 in October 2025, following storm issues
Following this update on LinkedIn from CS Energy on Thursday 30th October 2025, we summarise outages at Callide B2 (two outages) and Callide C4 (one outage).
Callide B Power Station
Frequency drop with trip of Callide B2 on Tuesday evening 28th October 2025
A short note to capture the trip of Callide B2 on Tuesday 28th October 2025 in the five minute period prior to 21:01 (NEM time) that day.
Belatedly recording the QLD LNP’s comments about ‘coal for decades’ in September 2025
I alluded to the following comments in Wednesday’s article about the possible early closure of Gladstone Power Station … though we did not have time to note them at the time. We were not...
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.
Callide B2 (apparent) trip early on Wednesday morning 19th February 2025
Whilst looking at system frequency, there was an apparent trip of the Callide B2 unit in the early hours of Wednesday morning 19th February 2025.
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.
Unit Trip at Callide B1 on Tuesday 13th February 2024
In amongst the frenetic challenges in Victoria today, the Callide B1 unit (in QLD) tripped ... probably unrelated to the VIC activity.
Callide B2 back online on Wednesday 9th November 2022
Callide B2 has returned to service - perhaps a bit earlier than earlier projections noted.
What’s going on at the Callide power stations?
Prompted by a few media questions (on a day when all 4 units were offline together for about 3 hours), have taken a quick look at the status of the four units on the...
Callide C3 unit suffers cooling tower issues
Alerted via an ABC news article, we take a quick look at Callide C3.
Summary view of supply-side contributions in QLD during ‘heatwave week’ – particularly Tue 1st Feb 2022 and Wed 2nd Feb 2022
An initial review of some (wholesale) supply-side factors contributing to the extreme price volatility (and Reserve Trader etc) that occurred in the first week of February 2022 in the QLD region of the NEM.
What happened at each of the DUIDs impacted by the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation on Sunday 24th January 2021 (Part 5)
It's now seven months since the SCADA outage on Sunday 24th January 2021 - and we're finally able to complete and publish this (quite long) article exploring some of the implications for units on...
Callide C3 return to service delayed another week
An updated look at the 'MT PASA DUID Availability' widget in ez2view shows another delay in returning Callide C3 to service.
Spot gas prices hit $20/GJ on Tuesday 6th July
A short record of gas prices being up at $20/GJ and above through a cold spell for winter, with other factors at work.
Callide B2 returns to service late this morning
Callide B2 returned to service this morning after nearly a month of being offline, following the explosion and outage at the station in late May.
Return to service slips further, for Callide B2
A quick look this afternoon sees that the return to service for Callide B2 has been delayed a few days since I last looked during the week.
Callide B1 back online Wednesday afternoon, 16th June
A short note to follow up on the welcome return-to-service of Callide B1.
Where’s Callide B1?
With expectations set last week that Callide B1 would be back online yesterday at minimum load, I've had a quick look and can't see it yet...
Further delays in RTS for Callide B1 and C3 (earlier for B2)
A short note about some further delays in return to service for Callide B1 and C3 ... though earlier return for B2
Delayed Return to Service for Callide B1, B2 and C3
First short article for Tuesday evening following report from CS Energy that the return to service