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.
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.
With AEMO forecasting LOR3 (i.e. load shedding) in NSW for periods of time on Monday 16th December 2024, in this WattClarity article we take a first look. More to come *as time permits* (and...
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 question from a WattClarity reader prompts this quick article about reduced output at Kogan Creek, and some questions about why.
Worth noting that on Friday evening 21st June 2024 Kogan Creek came back online, ~36 hours after it had come offline.
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...
3rd article for Sunday 14th January 2024 - this one looking further north, into QLD, with the Forced Outage at Kogan Creek Power Station.
An initial look at the 'out of the blue' price spike in QLD at 14:30 on Thursday 21st December 2023.
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...
On Friday 29th September 2023 we look back at Kogan Creek via 'Bids & Offers' in ez2view over 20 days to see what's visible, in terms of any impact of the current Industrial Action
Yesterday (Tue 26th Sept 2023) we saw Kogan Creek drop offline for a few hours - and were asked if this was related to industrial action. Here, with the benefit of 'next day public'...
A second quick article about the reported commencement of industrial action at Kogan Creek Power Station in QLD today (Thu 21st Sept 2023).
The print version of the AFR today talks about possible industrial action at Kogan Creek power station - prompting us to take a quick look at current Availability projections.
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different 'coal unit off' alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look ...
CS Energy's Kogan Creek restarted on the morning of Tuesday 20th December 2022.
One of many articles in the AFR this week flagged an extension of major outage on Kogan Creek Power Station. In this article we take a quick initial look.
Here's one example of the steps being taken by AEMO (which would ordinarily be considered as not advisable) to match supply and demand in the NEM (and particularly the QLD region) with Administered Pricing...
An initial review of some (wholesale) supply-side factors contributing to the extreme price volatility (and Reserve Trader etc) that occurred in the first week of February 2022 in the QLD region of the NEM.
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...
A short note about return to service of Kogan Creek power station early this morning.