In this article we’ll have a first pass at what happened in Victoria on Tuesday 13th February 2024 at a DI-by-DI level ... which we call ‘Timeline #1’ level – noting will go more...
The third (of 4) units at Loy Yang A that tripped on Wed 13th Feb 2024 is beginning to return to service ~26 hours afterwards.
A follow up on the (bumpy) return to service for Loy Yang A2
The start of a return to service for Loy Yang A3.
About 3 hours after it tripped offline (due to transmission outage?) the Loy Yang A2 unit is making its way back online.
Grid frequency had dropped to 49.689 Hz. We take an initial look into the timeseries of grid frequency recorded on the day.
An unfolding story, on Tuesday afternoon 13th Feb 2024 - with all 4 x Loy Yang A units tripping.
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
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.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days - and updating Tuesday's earlier article.
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
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...
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...
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...
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different 'coal unit off' alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look ...
A short note about return to service for LYA2, which had been out for over 6 months.
Prompted by a comment by a WattClarity reader, I've taken a quick look at Loy Yang A2 for the past week.
Third article today about major outages - this one looking at current expectations for RTS for Loy Yang A2 after some apparent slippage.
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...
Also on Thursday 29th September 2022 we had AGL Energy's 'earlier than previously stated' closure announcement for Loy Yang A power station.