An update on some coal-fired units, on Friday 14th June 2024
A quick look at several different coal-fired units, via the ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view.
coal unit outage
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).
So how much did Eraring Power Station supply, of the NSW electricity consumption, over 5 days to 11th May 2024?
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 hour over the 5 day period Monday 6th May 2024 to Friday 10th May 2024 (which includes 3 volatile periods leading to Administered Pricing).
… and Kogan Creek comes off for a few days on Sunday 14th January 2024
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 – this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
Hiccups continue, at Loy Yang A4 (Part 2)
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days – and updating Tuesday’s earlier article.
What’s been happening at Stanwell unit 1 since September 2023? (Part 1)
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
Hiccups at Loy Yang A4 (Part 1)
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
The 2023 ESOO report shows coal unit EFOR is still a significant factor
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.
Mid-July update on repairs on Callide C3 and C4 cooling tower
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.
Four coal unit outages in the past 24 hours
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different ‘coal unit off’ alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look …
Reader question about current (planned) outage at Millmerran unit 2
Answering a reader question (about the current outage at Millmerran unit 2) with some pictures in an article on WattClarity.
The never-ending (horror) story at Callide C … more long delays in expected Return-to-Service
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…
Expected Return to Service date for Callide C3* slips further back, to 30th June 2023
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).
False (re)start at Loy Yang A2 on 25th October
Prompted by a comment by a WattClarity reader, I’ve taken a quick look at Loy Yang A2 for the past week.
When can we hope to see the return of some of these coal units?
A quick look (for Tue 14th June) of which of the coal units are expected to return to service in the coming week.
Consistently elevated prices as a segue into EUAA National Conference this week
The EUAA is holding its National Conference this week in Melbourne, and we’re looking forward to being there. Elevated prices (which we have seen a lot of recently) are sure to be part of the conversation…
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.
Why is QLD short of generation capacity, on Tuesday 1st February 2022?
A quick look at the coal units that are currently offline today in the QLD region, in the lead-up to the tight supply-demand balance.
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.
A list of (some of) the factors contributing to the volatile price outcomes seen in Q2 2021 – particularly QLD and NSW
Prompted by last Friday’s publication of the AER’s ‘Wholesale Markets Quarterly’ for Q2 2021, here’s a tabulated summary of some of the contributing factors of spot price volatility (and hence high average prices) for the quarter – particularly for QLD and NSW.
Prices Spike on Sunday 30th May with low NEM-wide IRPM (without 4 Callide units, and low Wind Production)
On Friday evening (28th May) and again this evening (Sun 30th May) my phone buzzed plenty of times – due to price volatility, and also alerting on low IRPM (enabled with Callide units offline, and low wind harvest at peak demand time).