Wobbles in recent days, at Loy Yang A
A brief follow on article about Loy Yang A station, following the A4 unit trip yesterday, and unsuccessful return to service today.
A series of articles published and tagged with ‘coal unit outage’. These outages might be either:
1) Planned far in advance
2) Not planned far in advance (in which case there are several sub-categories of outage here).
A brief follow on article about Loy Yang A station, following the A4 unit trip yesterday, and unsuccessful return to service today.
A short record of a coal unit trip around the time of a system frequency drop. on Wednesday 14th August 2024.
A slightly longer summary (compared to this morning's) of some evening volatility (across the NEM) on Monday evening 5th August 2024.
Tarong unit 3 came offline late Friday afternoon 21st June 2024 ... we take a quick first look
A brief recap on another consecutive evening of low NEM-wide IRPM - on Thursday 20th June 2024.
Amongst other things happening in the past 24 hours, the large Kogan Creek coal-fired power station in southern QLD came offline this morning in an outage that appears anticipated two days prior ... but...
A quick look at several different coal-fired units, via the 'Generator Outages' widget in ez2view.
Following a reminder in a phone call today, I've updated the date range in a NEMreview trend previously used in February to look at percentage of Underlying Demand in NSW supplied for each half...
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 - this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days - and updating Tuesday's earlier article.
Today we take a look back at the operation of Stanwell unit 1 over the past 3 years ... but particularly since its return from a Major Outage in September 2023
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
One observation about the 2023 ESOO is that EFOR (equivalent forced outage rate) for coal and large gas units is a large and growing challenge.
A quick note on WattClarity to tie in an update (earlier this month) from CS Energy on the rebuild of the cooling tower for Callide C3 and C4.
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different 'coal unit off' alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look ...
Answering a reader question (about the current outage at Millmerran unit 2) with some pictures in an article on WattClarity.
More updates recently about the Callide C power station. Looks like we'll be waiting a while longer for the (delayed again) return to service...
A short article about a further delay in the expected return to service date for Callide C3 (which is offline after suffering cooling tower failure).
Prompted by a comment by a WattClarity reader, I've taken a quick look at Loy Yang A2 for the past week.
A quick look (for Tue 14th June) of which of the coal units are expected to return to service in the coming week.