The Australian notes how Callide C was back in court again this week
Another update from the Australian during the week with respect to the Federal Court proceedings with respect to Callide C (particularly unit C4).
Read MoreA collection of articles about major outages (units, transmission, etc)
Another update from the Australian during the week with respect to the Federal Court proceedings with respect to Callide C (particularly unit C4).
Read MoreA few separate questions about Callide C3 and C4 in recent days prompts this short status update on both units.
It’s Monday afternoon 1st April 2024 and Callide C3 has begun its journey back online following an outage longer than 500 days since the cooling tower failure in October 2022.
A short note about another (minor) delay in return to service for the repaired Callide C3 unit, that suffered a cooling tower failure.
Twelve days ago there was news about a delay to return to service for Callide C3 (now to 31st March 2024), but we’d missed it.
Late afternoon Monday 29th January 2024 (thanks to Nick Evans) we became aware that the Federal Court had ruled on docket number QUD541/2023 relating to Callide C4 and Callide C3 failures.
A short note about upcoming proceedings in the Federal Court (relating to Callide C3 and Callide C4) for next week.
A short note (Monday 15th January 2024) about delays in return to service for both of Callide C3 and Callide C4 units.
The CleanCo CEO last week participated in a radio interview in which he provided details and a progress update on the long-term outage at Barron Gorge Hydro Station, which was caused by excessive flooding from Cycle Jasper last month.
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.
An article from RenewEconomy alerts me to yesterday’s fire at the (in commissioning) Mannum Solar Farm 2 in South Australia. We take a quick initial look.
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
As December 2023 draws to a close, we take another look at return-to-service expectations for Callide C3 (a couple more weeks) and then Callide C4 (a few more months). References Nick Evans’ interesting articles.
Flooding from Cyclone Jasper has damaged part of the Barron Gorge Hydro Power Station in North Queensland, forcing its units offline until further assessment and repairs.
A quick update today, following news yesterday from CS Energy about a 17-day delay to the expected return to service of Callide C3, following repairs to the collapsed cooling tower.
As the next step in recovering from a fire onsite during commissioning, Genex Power has released an ASX Announcement and the battery charged briefly on Friday 3rd Nov 2023 afternoon.
Seeing another reference to ‘Bouldercombe BESS only offline for a day’ on social media prompts this article, to prevent further misconceptions…
A short article Thursday evening 28th September 2023 with the battery back online and charging, after the fire.
A quick article, following a social media update by CS Energy on the repair process for the cooling towers at Callide C.