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 quick look.
Another brief article (to help some specific readers/clients) with respect to a coal unit outage … this time Millmerran unit 2.
A new data update from AEMO confirms the suspicion that (based on current expectations) Eraring unit 2 is now offline until Tuesday 21st May 2024.
Millmerran 1 came back online Wednesday morning 31st January 2024, as per the outage schedule.
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.
An updated look at those two coal units in QLD that are limping through until a chance for an ‘Unplanned Forced Outage’.
This morning (in the article ‘Looking forward, to Monday 22nd January 2024 in Queensland’) I wrote about the forecast LOR2 condition that the AEMO was warning about at the time – looking ahead to Monday 22nd January 2024. (A) …
Answering a reader question (about the current outage at Millmerran unit 2) with some pictures in an article on WattClarity.
Following Tuesday’s article about 7 coal units due for return to service soon, 3 are back and 1 more on the way.
A short article about some coal quality issues at Millmerran Power Station flowing out of this year’s La Nina rain event.
A very brief look at the first significant price spike in QLD on Tuesday 2nd February 2022.
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 the LHS of the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation
At 23:05 on Saturday 9th March AEMO advised that the Millmerran power station units 1 and 2 tripped simultaneously at 22:07 (58 minutes prior) – for reasons still unknown.
Here’s how we saw it unfold at real time.