Yallourn unit 1 has just come offline for its Major Planned ‘performance improvement’ outage – but coincident with that, Yallourn unit 3 is suffering from a run of forced outages.
Tarong unit 2 came back online late Thursday evening 1st February 2024 … a week earlier than noted in the outage schedule when it came offline.
Closing the loop following earlier articles about TARONG#2 as one of two ‘units to watch’, confirming the unit’s come offline to fix a tube leak.
After the heat (and high demand) had subsided in QLD on Monday 22nd Jan 2024, Millmerran Unit 1 outage began – as had been previously telegraphed.
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 – this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
A quick update today, following news yesterday from CS Energy about a 17-day delay to the expected return to service of Callide C3, following repairs to the collapsed cooling tower.
With ez2view v9.8.5.1 released yesterday (Tue 30th Sept 2023) with enhancements to ‘Generator Outages’ we take the opportunity of some questions about Kogan Creek Power Station to have a look at the usefulness, and possible additional tweaks to make, to this software widget.
Yesterday (Wed 18th Oct 2023) Origin Energy held its Annual General Meeting, with discussion wide-ranging. Here’s two things that jumped out to me about the Eraring Power Station, which is currently slated to close in 2025.
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.
One observation about the 2023 ESOO is that AEMO is has highlighted the set of constraints modelled is only ‘System Normal’.
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 …
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 first look at the extended outage of Loy Yang A2 in Victoria following an electrical fault on Not-So-Good Friday, 15th April 2022.