Claims of market manipulation against QLD Gencos (Stanwell Corporation and CS Energy) dismissed … part 3
Guest author, James Prest, expands on what he’d previously published on LinkedIn with this longer review of the QUD19/2021 QLD Class Action.
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Queensland electricity consumer class action unsuccessful: Stillwater Pastoral Company Pty Ltd v Stanwell Corporation Ltd [2024] FCA 1382
Connor James from Compliance Quarter provides a summary and analysis of the recent unsuccessful class action case against Stanwell and CS Energy.
Dismissal of the class action against QLD Gencos (Stanwell Corporation and CS Energy) … part 1
On Wednesday 4th December 2024 we saw that Aaron Kelly of the ABC had written ‘Class action against Queensland’s government-owned electricity generators dismissed’. Today we get a chance to take a first look.
‘Operating in the NEM’ … from All Energy 2024
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.
More changes to the (re)commissioning schedule for Callide C4
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.
Ninth time is the charm: Callide C4’s return was another example of an overly optimistic timeline in the NEM
A chart showing the countdown to expected RTS for Callide C4, compared to the actual outage timeline.
Callide C4 offline again, as planned–but outage extended. Have they found something?
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.
Return to service commences for Callide C4 on Friday 30th August 2024 (after 1193 days offline)!
It’s Friday 30th August 2024 and Callide C4 has commenced its return-to-service (and re-commissioning), after an outage lasting 1193 days
Callide C3 offline until expected return to service on Monday 26th August 2024
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.
Changed (lower) output profile for Kogan Creek from early July 2024
A question from a WattClarity reader prompts this quick article about reduced output at Kogan Creek, and some questions about why.
Two news updates from CS Energy on Wed 17th July 2024 … the (final) Brady Report (about Callide C4), and the Hartz EPM Report (on the Cooling Towers)
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.
One more delay to Return-to-Service for Callide C4 … another 40 days added to the outage
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 releases most recent draft of the ‘Brady Report’
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)
Kogan Creek comes offline, 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 was not fully planned weeks in advance.
Callide C updates – operations (<40 days till RTS!), and in the courts
At the end of an eventful week in the NEM, here’s an update on a few fronts with respect to Callide C.
Video, from CS Energy, of the installation of new turbine and generator stator at Callide C4
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.
News update in the AFR about Callide C
On Wednesday evening 15th May 2024, Anthony Macdonald published an update about Callide C4 in the AFR that’s worth a read.
The Australian notes how Callide C was back in court again this week
Another update from the Australian during the week with respect to the Federal Court proceedings with respect to Callide C (particularly unit C4).
An update on Callide C3 (back online) and Callide C4 (still offline)
A few separate questions about Callide C3 and C4 in recent days prompts this short status update on both units.
Callide C3 starts up, after 518 days offline – on 1st April 2024 (no, that’s *not* an April fools tall tale)
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.