Gas & Coal Watch
Gas & Coal Watch monitors the National Energy Market’s fossil fuel power plants for breakdowns, particularly over the summer when generating units are vulnerable.
Similar to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s definition, breakdowns are all unscheduled outages – either full unit trips where generation from a unit falls to zero or partial unit trips where generation drops significantly.
For more of our research into the growing unreliability of gas and coal, see Can’t stand the heat.
Gas & Coal Watch is currently being updated, recent trips will be added shortly.
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All unit trips
August 2018
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-08-21)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-3 Generation lost: 221 MW Time: 2018-08-21 Retweet
Decrease: Kogan Creek, Queensland (2018-08-13)
Power Station: Kogan Creek Unit: KPP_1 Generation lost: 286 MW Time: 2018-08-13 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-08-13)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 530 MW Time: 2018-08-13 Retweet
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2018-08-07)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD04 Generation lost: 418 Time: 2018-08-07 Retweet
July 2018
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-07-24)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA4 Generation lost: 283 MW Time: 2018-07-24
Unit trip: Tallawarra, NSW (2018-07-21)
Power Station: Tallawarra Unit: TALWA1 Generation lost: 419 MW Time: 2018-07-21 Retweet
Unit trip: Bayswater, NSW (2018-07-19)
Power Station: Bayswater Unit: BW02 Generation lost: 626 MW Time: 2018-07-19 Retweet
Unit trip: Eraring, NSW (2018-07-13)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER03 Generation lost: 698 MW Time: 2018-07-13
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-07-09)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE1 Generation lost: 109 MW Time: 2018-07-09 12:15:00
Unit trip: Pelican Point, SA (2018-07-04)
Power Station: Pelican Point Unit: PPCCGT Generation lost: 231 MW Time: 2018-07-04 Retweet
June 2018
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-06-22)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA3 Generation lost: 562 Time: 2018-06-22 Retweet
Unit trip: Tallawarra, NSW (2018-06-17)
Power Station: Tallawarra Unit: TALWA1 Generation lost: 163 MW Time: 2018-06-18 01:20:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-06-16)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 401 Time: 2018-06-16 Retweet This is the third unit trip at Loy Yang A this week:
Unit trip: Kogan Creek, Queensland (2018-06-16)
Power Station: Kogan Creek Unit: KPP_1 Generation lost: 752 MW Time: 2018-06-16 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-06-15)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 510 MW Time: 2018-06-15 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-06-13)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 530 MW Time: 2018-06-13 Retweet
Unit trip: Vales Point “B”, NSW (2018-06-07)
Power Station: Vales Point “B” Unit: VP6 Generation lost: 631 MW Time: 2018-06-07 10:20:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Oakey, Queensland (2018-06-06)
Power Station: Oakey Unit: OAKEY2 Generation lost: 157 Time: 2018-06-06 09:55:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2018-06-05)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS3 Generation lost: 184 MW Time: 2018-06-05 23:25:00
Unit trip: Newport, Victoria (2018-06-05)
Power Station: Newport Unit: NPS Generation lost: 492 MW Time: 2018-06-05 19:35:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Kogan Creek, Queensland (2018-06-05)
Power Station: Kogan Creek Unit: KPP_1 Generation lost: 750 MW Time: 2018-06-05 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2018-06-04)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS1 Generation lost: 137 MW Time: 2018-06-04 11:10:00 Retweet Note: The figure depicts two units losing capacity throughout the day. Unit 3 lost capacity around 5am. It is not known if this depicts a unit trip, or scheduled maintenance. This Gas & Coal Watch entry concerns only the loss of
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2018-06-03)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD01 Generation lost: 143 MW Time: 2018-06-03 Retweet
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2018-06-01)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD03 Generation lost: 420 MW Time: 2018-06-01 Retweet
May 2018
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2018-05-29)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD02 Generation lost: 255 MWTime: 2018-05-29 Retweet
Unit trip: Newport Power Station, Victoria (2018-05-29)
Power Station: Newport Power Station Unit: NPS Generation lost: 188 MW Time: 2018-05-29 16:05:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Swanbank B, Queensland (2018-05-29)
Power Station: Swanbank B Unit: SWAN_E Generation lost: 280 MW Time: 2018-05-29 06:35:00 Retweet
