Frequency change with Yallourn unit 2 trip
We assess whether the trip at Yallourn 2 on 26 August 2025 was large enough to drive a frequency disturbance.
We assess whether the trip at Yallourn 2 on 26 August 2025 was large enough to drive a frequency disturbance.
A first article about an unplanned (and potentially significant) outage at Yallourn unit 2 that began on Tuesday 26th August 2025 due to 'LP turbine issues'.
Taking a look at the three of the Yallourn Units offline on Monday morning 16th June 2025.
Worth a short note on Thursday 12th June 2025 to highlight the short-lived return to service at YWPS4:
Yallourn unit 3 came offline for a tube leak - but ABC reports (on Mon 9th June 2025) that 'an air duct in unit three collapsed during maintenance', so we take an initial look.
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.
We thought we'd take a quick look at Eraring unit 3, given it was the focus of Colin Packham’s article yesterday in the Australian.
Partly prompted by a comment yesterday from a WattClarity reader (Liam), and powered by 'next day public' data, we take a look at Yallourn Power Station on Tuesday 12th November 2024.
A second quick look at the drop in NEM Mainland Frequency on Tuesday 12th November 2024.
A quick article recording the drop of NEM Mainland Frequency below the lower bound of the NOFB on Tuesday morning 12th November 2024.
On Sunday 8th September 2024 the Herald Sun published an article speculating about possible Service Life extension to Yallourn Power Station.
A quick look at several different coal-fired units, via the 'Generator Outages' widget in ez2view.
A short article noting ER01 and YWPS3 offline for Unplanned Maintenance/Forced Outages, and another coming soon for ER02
Yallourn unit 1 has just come offline for its Major Planned 'performance improvement' outage - but coincident with that, Yallourn unit 3 is suffering from a run of forced outages.
A short article to mark the start of the long planned outage for Yallourn unit 1, which is aimed (at least in part) at improving the performance of the unit following 2022.
A client question (for GenInsights Quarterly Updates) recently prompted a quick look at the delay to the start of the planned outage for Yallourn Unit 1.
Five days after Tuesday 13th February 2024 we have a bit of time to take this initial (top-down) look at bidding for ENERGY in the Victorian region on that day ... with 27 Questions/Observations...
Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
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.
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...