First big price spike in QLD at 18:35 on Wednesday 9th March 2022
Does not look like demand will rise as high on Wednesday evening as it did on Tuesday ... but the price still spiked.
Callide C
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.
Callide C4 updated RTS expectations on 5th November 2021 (now not expected back online until 7th April 2023)
With GenInsights21 released two weeks ago (and only yesterday all pre-orders and orders processed and invoices provided, as noted here) I’m catching up on a number of different things – actions I promised for...
AEMO releases Incident Report on 25th May 2021 event emanating from Callide C4
This morning (Fri 8th Oct) the AEMO has released its Incident Report into what happened on 25th May 2021, starting with problems at Callide C4.
Callide C4 now not due back online until 1st February 2023
An updated look at return-to-service expectation for the damaged Callide C4 unit.
The Contagion of Scarcity
Guest author, Josh Stabler of Energy Edge, provides a look into the 'contagion of scarcity' events impacting the market since mid-May 2021.
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...
Explosion at Eskom’s Medupi Unit 4 in South Africa at 22:50 on Sunday 8th August 2021
Hydrogen explosion in South Africa (at Eskom's Medupi unit) will inevitably draw comparisons to the explosion at Callide C4 on 25th May 2021. Use caution in following those links!
Callide C3 back online on Monday morning, 26th July 2021
A short article marking return to service for the Callide C3 unit, which has been offline since 25th May 2021.
Callide C3 within 8 hours of return to service early Sunday morning 25th July 2021 … but rebid and pushed back further!
Another quick look at the latest date that is visible for Callide C3, and when it's expected to Return To Service.
No sign (yet?) of Callide C3 returning to service
With the prior expectation being we'd see Callide C3 return today (Friday 23rd July), we can't see any output at this point.
Callide C3 return to service delayed further still – now till Friday 23rd July 2021
Another slippage on return to service expectation for Callide C3 ... now expected Friday 23rd July.
Callide C3 return to service delayed further – now till Wednesday 21st July 2021
This morning we see that there's been another slippage of expected return to service for Callide C3 - which will now have been offline over 8 weeks since the explosion at nearby Callide C4.
Callide C4 return to service now not till December 2022
There's been a 6-month delay in return to service expectation for the damaged Callide C4 unit.
End of the road looming – for Liddell, and also AGL’s Torrens B … and another day delay for Callide C3!
More changes to retirement schedules in the market prompt me to power up the 'MT PASA DUID Availability' widget in ez2view once again...
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.
Return to service date for Callide C3 now expected Friday 9th July 2021
An updated view of the return to service schedule of Callide C3 and C4 ... along with Yallourn unit 4.
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 C Event Fallout
Carl Daley of EnergyByte examines the ramifications of the Callide Power Station outage and discusses the big losers and winners from the situation.