ER03 makes its way back online, Sunday evening 12th October 2025
Given that we’ve written about that outage several times before, worth noting that Eraring Unit 3 came back online Sunday evening 12th October 2025.
Major Outages
A collection of articles about major outages (units, transmission, etc)
VP5 into the Planned part of it’s lengthy Unplanned-Planned-Unplanned outage
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.
Eraring Unit 3 comes offline early Thursday 2nd October 2025 – on the (delayed) short-notice maintenance outage
Following earlier articles about the (delayed) unplanned outage on ER03, worth noting it finally came offline Thursday morning 2nd October 2025.
Start date of short notice outage at ER03 delayed again, now Friday 3rd October 2025
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).
The start of the unplanned outage at ER03 is delayed till early Saturday morning 27th September 2025
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...
Unplanned outage at YWPS2 extended – return to service slated for 15th December 2025 (and may well extend further)
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.
ER03 now (again) slated to come offline early Thursday morning 25th September 2025
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.
AEMO oscillates warnings – possible need to intervene in NSW on Thu 25th Sept 2025 for System Strength reasons
At 15:30 today (Tuesday 23rd September 2025) the AEMO flagged in MN129259 a possible need to intervene in NSW this Thursday 25th September 2025 due to forecast low System Strength.
Mainstream media reports about blades lost at Flyers Creek Wind Farm
A brief, belated and back-dated article to point to the ABC news article about the damage at Flyers Creek Wind Farm (and
3.5 months after the turbine fire at Bulgana Wind Farm, we take an updated look
Combining together a bundle of different metrics related to the 'availability' of a wind farm, we take a look at what's happened at Bulgana Wind Farm over the past ~25 months.
Newport Power Station running, with Yallourn’s yips yielding 1 unit operations
We noticed Bruce Mountain’s comments on LinkedIn about Newport power station running overnight, so had a look in ez2view.
Outage at Vales Point unit 5 extended – return to service now not expected until 15th December 2025
Subsequent to earlier article about VP5, the expected duration of the outage pushed out by more than a month.
Vales Point unit 5 (partly unplanned) outage – return to service currently expected 9th November 2025
On Tuesday 26th August 2025 the VP5 unit came offline, with rebid reasons suggesting that ‘turbine vibrations’ were a factor. We take a look ~10 days later.
Unplanned outage on Yallourn Unit 2 extended another ~month (with new RTS expectation 22nd October 2025)
As a further update on outage expectation for the damaged YWPS2 (which tripped with 'LP turbine issue' on Tue 26th August) the latest return to service expectation is now not until 22nd October 2025.
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
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.
Notable forced outage at Yallourn Unit 2 … due to ‘LP turbine issue’
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'.
Several coal units offline (on Wednesday 27th August 2025) with unplanned outages
A short note with a snapshot of the ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view (at 08:30 on Wed 27th Aug 2025) to highlight some coal units offline.
Turbine availability at Bulgana wind farm
We use the elements available dataset to better understand turbines available at Bulgana in recent months.
Reece Unit 1 returns to service after outage (coincident with fire onsite) … but Unit 2 outage lengthens
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...