It’s roughly 6 months since the decision was made to extend the life of Eraring Power Station. I’ve had a question for a while, but have only had time to look now – what does that mean, in terms of planned outages to 2027?
Some news articles this morning, following a media tour of Eraring Power Station, prompted a piece of quick analysis (focused on ER01) of MinGen levels.
With Eraring unit 3 coming offline on Sunday 25th August 2024 (not long after Eraring unit 1 returned to service) I’ve had a quick look.
A quick look at several different coal-fired units, via the ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view.
A short article noting ER01 and YWPS3 offline for Unplanned Maintenance/Forced Outages, and another coming soon for ER02
Reaching for the same NEMreview query we’ve used a few times in 2024 Q2, we take a look at how futures prices have traded in NSW, following the announcement of agreement to extend the service life at Eraring Power Station.
Roughly 48 hours after Eraring unit 2 came back online (Sat 25th May 2024), Eraring unit 1 has come offline (Mon 27th May 2024) on a forced outage.
Eraring Unit 2 commenced return to service on Saturday afternoon 25th May 2024.
A short follow-on article to this morning’s (about the notice of extension to service for Eraring Power Station) reflecting the update of AEMO data.
Thursday morning 23rd May 2024 saw a media News Conference and announcement that Eraring closure will be delayed until August 2027 … or possibly as far out as August 2029.
It’s Tuesday 21st May 2024 and the AEMO has published an update to the 2023 ESOO … about 8 months since the publication of the prior release, and 4 months before the 2024 ESOO. Some implications for the anticipated closure of Eraring?
An early afternoon look (Sat 18th May 2024) about the delays in return to service for the forced outages at two NSW coal units (Eraring unit 2 and Vales Point unit 6).
A new data update from AEMO confirms the suspicion that (based on current expectations) Eraring unit 2 is now offline until Tuesday 21st May 2024.
Following several changes in the forecast for Monday morning 20th May 2024, the AEMO has issued a ‘forecast LOR2’ notice.
Yesterday afternoon (Thu 16th May) Eraring unit 2 commenced return to service. But it hit a snag that evening, came offline, and might be off for a few more days?
On Thursday afternoon 16th May 2024, Eraring unit 2 (after a 15-day outage due to a boiler tube leak) has commenced the return-to-service process.
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).
Today (Wed 15th May 2024) Bruce Mountain writes an opinion piece in the Australian about the recent run of Administered Pricing in NSW, and what it means for the looming closure of Eraring and the energy transition.
It’s Thursday evening 9th may 2024 and (almost exactly a week since it came offline) Eraring Unit 3 has commenced return-to-service after repairing a boiler tube leak.
On Tuesday 30th April 2024 we reported of rumours about possible extension to Eraring Power Stations. In the 8 days that have followed since that update several things have happened. In this article we provide an update.