Yes, MP2 did come offline in the early hours of Wednesday morning 24th September 2025
A short note looking at the commencement of the unplanned outage for MP2 on Wednesday morning 24th September 2025
Mt Piper Power Station
AEMO oscillates warnings – possible need to intervene in NSW on Thu 25th Sept 2025 for System Strength reasons
At 15:30 today (Tuesday 23rd September 2025) the AEMO flagged in MN129259 a possible need to intervene in NSW this Thursday 25th September 2025 due to forecast low System Strength.
A quick look at system frequency, with 2 x coal units offline overnight into Saturday 31st May 2025
It’s fitting to book-end the week with a look at frequency performance overnight (into Saturday 31st May 2025) with two coal unit outages in NSW overnight to see what happened in terms of more...
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.
About flexibility at Mt Piper coal-fired power station … another ‘sign o the times’
Yesterday, our team produced ‘not-for-dissemination early draft’ of the GSD2024. We take a look through this (and use ez2view) to explore reports of a trial of 'two-shifting' (and other enhancements to flexibility) for the...
Mt Piper unit 1 offline till Monday 24th June with boiler tube leak
Mt Piper unit 1 appears to have come offline overnight for boiler tube leak, with expected return to service sometime Monday 24th June 2024.
Possible coal supply issues at Mt Piper coal-fired power station to last until the end of 2023?
A short note to echo EnergyAustralia's warnings (reported in the Australian) about possible coal supply issues for Mt Piper power station.
EnergyAustralia notes the likely change of operating mode for Mt Piper coal-fired power station in NSW
Third article today looking back at news with respect to 'coal closure' ... this article pertaining to EnergyAustralia's Mt Piper station in NSW.
7th Aug 2023 – EnergyAustralia ‘continues to focus on strengthening performance following improved first-half results’
A belated and back-dated article to point to the EnergyAustralia Media Release of 7th August 2023 about the $400 million outage plans for Yallourn for 2023 and 2024.
8th Aug 2022 – EnergyAustralia reported an earnings fall for the first half of calendar 2022
A belated and back-dated article to point to the EnergyAustralia Media Release of 8th August 2022 following the Energy Crisis.
Selected initial observations from the Generator Statistical Digest 2019
Guest author, David Leitch, in his first article here on WattClarity, walks through some of what first jumps out to him in his initial review of the Generator Statistical Digest 2019.
Factors contributing to an unforeseen price spike in NSW at 16:15 on Thursday 31st January 2019
Taking a brief (well, actually longer than intended) look into the various factors that delivered a price spike above $10,000/MWh on Thursday 31st January in NSW - and thinking through the implications for one...
Off-Target #1 = Unit trip – Mt Piper Unit 2 on 24th October 2018
Highlighting one example of a unit trip. We expect we will find many in the process of compiling our Generator Report Card 2018 - the bigger question being whether the incidence is increasing (and,...
How significant would it be, if Mt Piper were forced to close (at least temporarily)?
A quick look at the scale of the challenge, if Mt Piper were to be forced to close following a court challenge to coal supplies upstream