Callide C4 generator transformer delivered to Callide Power Station
A quick note to echo the news from CS Energy that the replacement generator transformer is onsite.
MT PASA DUID Availability
What’s going on at the Callide power stations?
Prompted by a few media questions (on a day when all 4 units were offline together for about 3 hours), have taken a quick look at the status of the four units on the Callide Power Station site.
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.
Kogan Creek Power Station major overhaul extended to 18th December (unexpected stator and rotor issues)
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.
When can we hope to see the return of some of these coal units?
A quick look (for Tue 14th June) of which of the coal units are expected to return to service in the coming week.
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 at Liddell, and one at...
Swanbank E out until September 2022 with damaged Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR)
Using some of the new widgets to be released in ez2view v9.4 we take a quick look at the extended outage of Swanbank E gas-fired power station.
Callide C4 updated RTS expectations on 5th November 2021 (now not expected back online until 7th April 2023)
With GenInsights21 released two weeks ago (and only yesterday all pre-orders and orders processed and invoices provided, as noted here) I’m catching up on a number of different things – actions I promised for clients, and also what’s been happening in the market. Given that...
What does ‘Forecast Convergence’ for MT PASA DUID Availability help us understand, about the ESB’s Final Advice?
Following from the ESB's Final Advice, and inspired by the one year anniversary of publications the MT PASA DUID Availability data sets by AEMO (thanks to the ERM-sponsored rule change) we take a quick look about both initiatives might mean for each other. More to...
Callide C4 return to service now not till December 2022
There's been a 6-month delay in return to service expectation for the damaged Callide C4 unit.
End of the road looming – for Liddell, and also AGL’s Torrens B … and another day delay for Callide C3!
More changes to retirement schedules in the market prompt me to power up the 'MT PASA DUID Availability' widget in ez2view once again...
Using ‘MT PASA DUID Availability’ widget in ez2view to compare unit availability with expectations prior to Q2 2021
Following Saturday's review of changed expectations for Callide Power Station and Yallourn Power Station, I took a look at aggregate expectation by fuel type. Here's a belated article with the results.
EnergyAustralia notes ‘further instability in the Morwell River Diversion wall’ – with respect to Yallourn mine
A media release by EnergyAustralia this afternoon (Tue 15th June) about Yallourn mine flooding prompts an updated look on Wattclarity...
Further delays in RTS for Callide B1 and C3 (earlier for B2)
A short note about some further delays in return to service for Callide B1 and C3 ... though earlier return for B2
AEMC Rule Change (Feb 2020) agrees with much of what ERM proposed – for ‘Improving transparency and extending duration of MT PASA’
A back-dated article, looking back at the two ERM rule change requests which, when passed by the AEMC, had great effect in expanding transparency in the NEM in relation to generator availabilities from 20th August 2020.