A catalogue of articles pertaining to eventful days in 2025
I was keen to see if there was any noticeable blip in System Frequency resulting from the BW02 unit coming offline on Saturday 4th October 2025 for the brief (two-shift) outage.
Today's LinkedIn update from Geoff Eldridge at GPE about two-shifting at BW02 (such as on Sat 4th Oct 2025 and Sun 5th Oct 2025) coincides with other investigations, and prompts me to take a...
A short article for Sunday 5th October 2025 to record the Direction issued for System Strength for NSW on Sunday 5th October 2025
A snapshot from NEMwatch at 10:55 on Saturday 4th October 2025, highlighting NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’ down at 9,393MW - a new lowest point?
Worth copying in here AEMO's Market Notice 129413 published late Friday afternoon 3rd October 2025 pertaining to the coming two-year period - because of some changes and other notes.
I alluded to the following comments in Wednesday’s article about the possible early closure of Gladstone Power Station … though we did not have time to note them at the time. We were not...
On my commute this morning (Friday 3rd Oct 2025), I noticed this update on LinkedIn yesterday evening from the team at Delta Electricity, speaking about their annual shutdown at Vales Point 5.
A very short article recording another instance of frequency wandering south as the sun is setting (this one on Thursday 2nd October 2025).
Yesterday (Wed 1st Oct 2025) we had follow-on news about Torrens B, with the Premier of South Australia announcing that ‘Government negotiates energy security agreement’.
Following earlier articles about the (delayed) unplanned outage on ER03, worth noting it finally came offline Thursday morning 2nd October 2025.
A very short article here from us today to point readers here to the ABC News article ‘Rio Tinto's Gladstone coal-fired power station could be retired early’ from earlier today
On Monday 29th September 2025 the AEMO alerted of possible MSL1 for the coming weekend (Sat 4th October and Sunday 5th October) in Victoria.
On LinkedIn someone wrote about the QLD price dropping to the Market Price Floor for the 10:05 and 10:10 dispatch interval today (Mon 29th Sept 2025). So I had a quick look
Late on Thursday 25th September 2025, the expected start of the short-notice outage at ER03 was pushed back again (this time by a week).
As a short follow-on article now mid-morning Thursday 25th September 2025 to highlight the delay in the start of the unplanned outage at ER03 as one of the key drivers in AEMO's cancellation of...
We noticed today (Wednesday 24th September) an ~8 week extension added onto the expected return to service date for YWPS2, which tripped offline due to 'LP turbine issues' in August 2025.
A quick look forward (past the forecast LOR1) to tomorrow evening in NSW, Thursday 25th September 2025.
With the need for an early morning direction flagged for NSW on Thursday 25th September 2025, we take a quick look back 4 weeks ago (to Thursday 28th August 2025) when it happened.
Worth calling out MN129729 published on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 14:29 about possible early-morning intervention in NSW for System Strength reasons
Following from the quick look at the unplanned outage for MP2 (now underway) there's some difference in the picture for the unplanned outage for ER03.