What’s the 2024 ESOO assume, in terms of coal unit performance?
In this article we explore the 2024 ESOO, and linked documents, in terms of what's assumed for coal unit EFOR - and why, in the light of recent...
the ‘#coalfail’ meme
Coal-fired unit performance has improved markedly from the ‘dog year’ that was 2022
Following the recent release of the review of 2024 Q2 (and belated release of the review of 2024 Q1) here's some updated statistics on coal unit performance.
A 20-year trend of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) across 44 x coal units to 31st Dec 2023
A first article today (falling out of analysis for GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4) presenting a long-term trend of the incidence of large instances of Aggregate Raw...
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.
Two (of four) Major Rectification Outages at Yallourn performed. Have they improved plant performance (Part 1)?
Remembering a question that were were asked by a client in December 2023 (about Yallourn power station) we take a quick look at the start of 2024.
NSW Government to explore option for (relatively short) extension to operations at Eraring Power Station … amongst other initiatives
Yesterday, the NSW Government released both the Marsden Jacobs report (NSW Electricity Supply and Reliability Check Up) and the Government’s Response.
The 2023 ESOO report shows coal unit EFOR is still a significant factor
One observation about the 2023 ESOO is that EFOR (equivalent forced outage rate) for coal and large gas units is a large and growing challenge.
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 ...
AFR reports Callide C co-owner (with CS Energy) goes into voluntary administration
AFR and the Australian (and elsewhere?) there are reports of the co-owner of Callide C (with CS Energy) being placed in voluntary administration.
Unavailability of coal units hits 24% across calendar 2022 (but they are *not* collectively tripping more often)
This second excerpt from GenInsights 2022 Q4 Update highlights some of what's seen in terms of the performance of coal units.
Farewell Liddell
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, takes the release of the GSD2022 as an opportunity to take a look at the past 10 years of performance of the four-unit Liddell...
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...
A list of (some of) the factors contributing to the volatile price outcomes seen in Q2 2021 – particularly QLD and NSW
Prompted by last Friday's publication of the AER's 'Wholesale Markets Quarterly' for Q2 2021, here's a tabulated summary of some of the contributing factors of spot price volatility...
Report ‘Fast Erosion of Coal Plant Profits’ prompts questions
A report released this week by Green Energy Markets and the IEEFA exploring the prospect of accelerated coal closures, has itself caused some ripples...
What’s up with the fleet of 16 x coal-fired units in NSW?
Following a week where several days saw price volatility in NSW (with this being so extreme that Reserve Trader was triggered on Thursday 17th December) we've taken a...
2019 was not a great year at the Liddell Power Station
Comments by the Brett Redman (CEO of AGL Energy) about the poor performance of Liddell Power Station, as reported in the media, prompted me to open up the...