Why Gladstone’s prospective closure reveals a new kind of NEM failure
With the Queensland state government’s new energy roadmap due out tomorrow, Greg Elkins highlights how distorted signals and state interventions expose a new NEM failure.
Gladstone Power Station
ABC reports ‘Rio Tinto’s Gladstone coal-fired power station could be retired early’
A very short article here from us today to point readers here to the ABC News article ‘Rio Tinto's Gladstone coal-fired power station could be retired early’ from earlier today
Do we have enough gas to wait until nuclear comes along?
Tristan Edis of Green Energy Markets discusses the practicalities of the gap that must be filled by the gas sector under the nuclear power timeline proposed by the Federal Opposition.
Four units at Gladstone still running … was it (is it) partly a game of bluff?
A fourth update in what's visible in the market data about Industrial Action at Gladstone Power Station
AEMO notes ‘Update to system strength requirements in North Queensland’ to cater for 0 x Gladstone units online
With all 6 x Gladstone units expected to be offline by the end of the day due to Industrial Action, very timely that AEMO MN124047 notifies the market that 'The system normal equations have...
About the Industrial Action at Gladstone Power Station (potentially) taking all units offline … and LOR forecast for QLD, VIC and SA
Yesterday we posted ‘All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?’. Two readers noted in comments about Industrial Action for the station this week, so we take a...
Gladstone unit 2 switches offline, on Wednesday evening 22nd January 2025
One of our ez2view alerts (i.e. the one for ‘coal unit switches off’) configured in the ‘Notifications’ widget triggered at 19:31 (NEM time) on Wednesday evening 22nd January 2025 to show GSTONE2 coming offline.
Eraring Unit 2 offline for ~13 days, with tube leak
Eraring unit 2 came offline prior to 21:46 NEM time on Sunday evening 8th December 2024 as captured in this alert triggered by the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view at the time. Here we take...
A look into minimum generation levels at various coal plants, using the GSD2023
Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
Two pieces of information (about Eraring Power Station) from the Origin Energy 2023 AGM
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...
Media buzz about compensation for Gladstone Power Station under the coal price cap
Two media articles (in the Guardian and the Australian) prompt a quick article, utilising an in-development copy of the up-coming GSD2022.
A closer look at coal-fired generation availability
Tweet at your own peril A quick mea culpa: after squinting at an ez2view layout early this morning I dashed off a tweet suggesting that six of AGL Energy’s eleven coal-fired generation units were...
Simultaneous trip of Gladstone units 3 and 4 on Thursday 31st March 2022
A short article, noting trip of Gladstone units 3 and 4 this afternoon.
What happened at each of the DUIDs impacted by the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation on Sunday 24th January 2021 (Part 5)
It's now seven months since the SCADA outage on Sunday 24th January 2021 - and we're finally able to complete and publish this (quite long) article exploring some of the implications for units on...
Understanding the NEM through the lens of the GSD 2019
Jonathon Dyson, Director of Greenview Strategic Consulting and co-developer of the Generator Statistical Digest 2019, uses insights from the GSD to illustrate the nuances of generation in the NEM as it goes through a...