Unplanned outage at Callide C3 extended by 3 days – to Monday 2nd June 2025
A short note to flag this 3-day extension to the unplanned outage at Callide C3.
A collection of articles about major outages (units, transmission, etc)
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...
A recent update from CleanCo indicates the repair works on the embankment at Kuranda Weir, located upstream of the Barron Gorge Hydro Power Station, have been completed. This comes twelve months after significant damage...
Friday afternoon 1st November 2024 our copies of ez2view did alert us to the restart of the STWF1 unit, just prior to the 16:40 dispatch interval (NEM time).
As of 8:41pm Broken Hill time (ACDT) 31 Oct, Transgrid confirmed the power line linking Broken Hill to the HV transmission network was energised.
Some good news I saw (on Wednesday morning 30th Oct 2024) was that Broken Hill might be reconnected to the wider grid (albeit on the temporary towers for now) as early as this Saturday...
A map of where the eight separate transmission tower incidents have occurred over the past five years.
A brief collation of several key events over recent years in the development and early operations of the Broken Hill BESS.
A quick update on Broken Hill - with BHB1 discharging Sunday evening 27th October 2024, and more updates from the Energy Minister.
It was welcome news to see the Broken Hill BESS start charging this afternoon (Saturday 26th October 2024 at 15:41 NEM time).
Anthony Cornelius of WeatherWatch shares insights and graphical displays that demonstrate the extent of the supercell storm that toppled seven transmission towers in Broken Hill last week.