Grid frequency on 13th February 2024
Grid frequency had dropped to 49.689 Hz. We take an initial look into the timeseries of grid frequency recorded on the day.
Loy Yang A
4 Loy Yang A units simultaneously trip, on Tuesday 13th February 2024
An unfolding story, on Tuesday afternoon 13th Feb 2024 – with all 4 x Loy Yang A units tripping.
… but Loy Yang A1 trips on Sunday 14th January 2024
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
Hiccups over, at Loy Yang A4? (Part 3)
This article (Part 3) follows on from Part 1 and Part 2, which looked at four successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days.
Hiccups continue, at Loy Yang A4 (Part 2)
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days – and updating Tuesday’s earlier article.
Hiccups at Loy Yang A4 (Part 1)
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
An updated look at Kogan Creek performance in the past 60 days (re industrial action, bushfires, ambient temp, ez2view enhancements, and more)
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.
AGL (Bayswater and Loy Yang A) fined for inability to supply FCAS services
An article in the Australian this morning alerted me to yesterday’s Federal Court ruling against AGL Energy for not supplying contingency FCAS services (from Bayswater and Loy Yang A) when enabled by NEMDE. Here’s a quick look…
AGL Energy and VIC Govt entered into ‘Structured Transition Agreement’ relating to Loy Yang A
An article at the end of the week in which AGL Energy announced the establishment of a Structured Transition Agreement (STA) with respect to Loy Yang A and the notice of closure for 30th June 2035.
Four coal unit outages in the past 24 hours
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different ‘coal unit off’ alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look …
Loy Yang A2 back online – Monday 31st October 2022
A short note about return to service for LYA2, which had been out for over 6 months.
False (re)start at Loy Yang A2 on 25th October
Prompted by a comment by a WattClarity reader, I’ve taken a quick look at Loy Yang A2 for the past week.
Loy Yang A2 slips back – now RTS on Thu 27th October 2022
Third article today about major outages – this one looking at current expectations for RTS for Loy Yang A2 after some apparent slippage.
How much capacity would be required to replace Loy Yang A power station?
Following the published note of scepticism/concern about the energy transition from several industry CEOs in the AFR on Friday, we take a quick look at the replacement capacity needs just for Loy Yang A power station to illustrate the enormous scale of the challenge.
AGL announces that they might close Loy Yang A as early as 2035 … 10 years earlier than previously stated
Also on Thursday 29th September 2022 we had AGL Energy’s ‘earlier than previously stated’ closure announcement for Loy Yang A power station.
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 offline – three at Bayswater, two…
Extended outage of Loy Yang A2 from 15th April 2022
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.
Is the wet weather event (and flooding in the Latrobe Valley) affecting brown coal generation – Fri 11th June?
Flooding in the Latrobe Valley town of Traralgon raises questions about whether there is any effect on the brown coal generators.
Pain at AGL Energy … part 2
Following last week’s ASX & Media Release, this week’s half-year results presented by AGL Energy has more questions being asked. Here are some …
High temperatures, and high demand, forecast for Monday 25th January 2021
Following several different warnings of high temperatures forecast for the lead-in to Tuesday 26th January 2021 (whatever you want to call that day) I’ve taken a quick look at what it’s currently forecast to mean for the NEM…