What was the cause of the coincident trip of Eraring units 1 and 2?
It’s Monday 8th April, the two Eraring units that tripped last week are back online – and I wonder what the cause of the coincident trip was?
It’s Monday 8th April, the two Eraring units that tripped last week are back online – and I wonder what the cause of the coincident trip was?
Fourth article on Wed 3rd April 2024, pertaining to the earlier coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 units at Eraring Power Station.
AEMO Market Notice 115944 notifies that the coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 was at 13:22 NEM time on Wednesday 3rd April 2024.
In this second short article for the day, we Time-Travel ez2view back to 4 x Dispatch Intervals surrounding the coincident trip of ER01 and ER02 at Eraring Power Station.
TARONG#1 has come offline from close to minimum load this morning, closely followed by TARONG#2 (also from close to minimum load) – Wednesday 28th February 2024
Curiosity (part triggered by some conversations I noticed on social media) drove me to have a look at the implied ROCDOWN in the AEMO 4-second data for the 5 facilities (10 DUIDs) involved in rapid ramp down on Tuesday 13th February 2024.
In amongst the frenetic challenges in Victoria today, the Callide B1 unit (in QLD) tripped … probably unrelated to the VIC activity.
A quick PS to the earlier Sunday article (which looked at LYA4) this time focused on LYA1.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days – and updating Tuesday’s earlier article.
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
Yesterday (Tue 26th Sept 2023) we saw Kogan Creek drop offline for a few hours – and were asked if this was related to industrial action. Here, with the benefit of ‘next day public’ data, we take a first look.
It does not happen often, so when receiving 4 different ‘coal unit off’ alerts within 24 hours, we thought we would take a look …
CS Energy’s Kogan Creek restarted on the morning of Tuesday 20th December 2022.
Prompted by a few media questions (on a day when all 4 units were offline together for about 3 hours), have taken a quick look at the status of the four units on the Callide Power Station site.
Alerted via an ABC news article, we take a quick look at Callide C3.
A short article, noting trip of Gladstone units 3 and 4 this afternoon.
Adding into the tight supply-demand dynamic, the coal-fired unit Tarong unit 2 tripped this afternoon.
A pretty rare event in the NEM, when two units trip simultaneously … so a short article on WattClarity as a result.
The publication by AGL Energy of the short note about the transformer incident (and injured worker) at Liddell unit 3 yesterday prompted me to have a quick look, following on from the volatility this week.
Earlier this afternoon we were alerted to a price spike in NSW and QLD that was seemingly caused by a unit trip at one of the larger generators in NSW.