Specifically with respect to All Energy 2024, I can categorically state that the ‘Operating in the NEM’ session that was conducted on Thursday 24th October 2024 was easily the best* session I attended throughout the event.
Two weeks after our last look at the Return To Service progress at Callide C4, here’s a quick update as at Friday 20th September 2024.
A chart showing the countdown to expected RTS for Callide C4, compared to the actual outage timeline.
A short update (on Friday 6th September 2024) about Callide C4, which has come off for a planned outage as part of its (re)commissioning process.
It’s Friday 30th August 2024 and Callide C4 has commenced its return-to-service (and re-commissioning), after an outage lasting 1193 days
A short initial article, 5 days after Callide C3 came offline again for another forced outage … during a period that’s seen multi-region spot price volatility.
A question from a WattClarity reader prompts this quick article about reduced output at Kogan Creek, and some questions about why.
On Wednesday 17th July 2024, CS Energy released the Brady-Heywood report (about Callide C4 failure on 25th May 2021) and the HartzEPM Report (about CallideC3 failure on 31st Oct 2022) … and an Action Plan in response to both.
In the last MT PASA DUID Availability data update for Friday 12th July 2024 the return to service expectation for the repaired Callide C4 unit has been delayed again another 40 days … now 50 days out, till Saturday 31st August 2024.
CS Energy has released the latest draft of the ‘Brady Report’ – a draft Executive Summary, a draft Part A (Technical) and a draft Part B (Organisational)
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 was not fully planned weeks in advance.
At the end of an eventful week in the NEM, here’s an update on a few fronts with respect to Callide C.
On Friday 17th May, CS Energy posted a video on YouTube showing a timelapse camera view of some of the repair process for Callide C4. This will be of interest to some WattClarity readers.
On Wednesday evening 15th May 2024, Anthony Macdonald published an update about Callide C4 in the AFR that’s worth a read.
Another update from the Australian during the week with respect to the Federal Court proceedings with respect to Callide C (particularly unit C4).
A few separate questions about Callide C3 and C4 in recent days prompts this short status update on both units.
It’s Monday afternoon 1st April 2024 and Callide C3 has begun its journey back online following an outage longer than 500 days since the cooling tower failure in October 2022.
Twelve days ago there was news about a delay to return to service for Callide C3 (now to 31st March 2024), but we’d missed it.
Following on just one day after CS Energy released an abridged report on the failure of Callide C4, the AFR reports about insurance problems.
Today CS energy has released a detailed insight into what happened to the C4 unit that caused the major failure.