Unplanned outage on Yallourn Unit 2 pushed out ~2 weeks (with new RTS Thursday 25th September 2025)
An updated look (as at 14:10 on Thu 28th Aug 2025) of expected return to service for YWPS2
A collection of articles about major outages (units, transmission, etc)
An updated look (as at 14:10 on Thu 28th Aug 2025) of expected return to service for YWPS2
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'.
On Sunday 3rd Aug 2025 there (appears to have been) a fire at Reece Power Station, and both units tripped. We saw REECE1 return to service Friday evening, but REECE2 looks set for a...
Following a tip from a WattClarity reader, we take a quick look at a forced outage for both units at the Reece (hydro) Power Station in Tasmania ... possibly related to an apparent fire...
System frequency shows improved resilience to sudden coal generation events since 2020.
A count of coal generator events indicates large unit trips are less frequent.
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the NSW Government released its 158-page report into ‘The electricity outages affecting Far West NSW in October 2024’.
A short article to note that Callide C3 came back online in the early hours of Sunday morning 1st June 2025.
A short note to flag this 3-day extension to the unplanned outage at Callide C3.
A short not tying together several different notes about Callide C - the part buyout by 7GI and resurrection of out voluntary administration (and outage on C3).
First article about the latest long forced outage for Callide C3 - beginning April 2025.
No sooner had I published this article about ‘Berrybank 1 Wind Farm recommences operations, on Friday morning 7th February 2025’ than I received an ez2view alert on the restart of neighbouring Berrybank 2 Wind...
Third article in a series, following the turbine failure at one of the Berrybank Wind Farms (was it Berrybank 2?) ... to note that Berrybank 1 has restarted on Friday 7th February 2025.
Inspecting unit data at Willogoleche Wind Farm to ascertain drivers of the outage on 4th of February, 2025.
Prompted by a reader (and an ABC article) we take a look at Berrybank 1 & 2 Wind Farm following the turbine tower collapse on Tuesday 4th February 2025.
A fourth update in what's visible in the market data about Industrial Action at Gladstone Power Station
With all 6 x Gladstone units expected to be offline by the end of the day due to Industrial Action, very timely that AEMO MN124047 notifies the market that 'The system normal equations have...
Yesterday we posted ‘All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?’. Two readers noted in comments about Industrial Action for the station this week, so we take a...
Worth also adding in a short note with this snapshot from ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view at the 18:00 on Sunday 2nd February 2025 with all 6 units at Gladstone slated to be offline...