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.
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.
Reaching for the same NEMreview query we've used a few times in 2024 Q2, we take a look at how futures prices have traded in NSW, following the announcement of agreement to extend the...
A short follow-on article to this morning's (about the notice of extension to service for Eraring Power Station) reflecting the update of AEMO data.
Thursday morning 23rd May 2024 saw a media News Conference and announcement that Eraring closure will be delayed until August 2027 ... or possibly as far out as August 2029.
It's Tuesday 21st May 2024 and the AEMO has published an update to the 2023 ESOO ... about 8 months since the publication of the prior release, and 4 months before the 2024 ESOO....
Following a reminder in a phone call today, I've updated the date range in a NEMreview trend previously used in February to look at percentage of Underlying Demand in NSW supplied for each half...
Today (Wed 15th May 2024) Bruce Mountain writes an opinion piece in the Australian about the recent run of Administered Pricing in NSW, and what it means for the looming closure of Eraring and...
On Tuesday 30th April 2024 we reported of rumours about possible extension to Eraring Power Stations. In the 8 days that have followed since that update several things have happened. In this article we...
Enroute to Melbourne today for the EUAA National Conference starting tomorrow, I grabbed some flight time to have a quick read through the Grattan Institute’s latest offering – a 45-page report appropriately titled ‘Keeping...
Given that we’ve taken an interest in what’s going to happen with the looming closure of Eraring Power Station, I thought it would be useful to our readers to highlight Peter Hannam’s article in...
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.
It's Monday 8th April, the two Eraring units that tripped last week are back online - and I wonder what the cause of the coincident trip was?
With GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4 completed, and some time till the end of 2024 Q1, we've looked back at Tuesday 14th November 2023 (when AEMO had concerns about low System Strength in...
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.
Worth noting these three recent news articles from the past 8 days, all pertaining to the slated closure of the Eraring Power Station as early as 19th August 2025 (under 18 months away), but...
Last article (on the day) about Thu 29th Feb 2024. Prompted by an AFR article just over 24 hours ago, how large was the contribution of Eraring Power Station to the NSW electricity region...
A short article to note another view (this one from Clean Energy Finance) on whether Eraring can close in 2025.
This article (Part 3) follows on from Part 1 and Part 2, which looked at four successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days - and updating Tuesday's earlier article.