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
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
Unit trip: Pelican Point, South Australia (2018-03-17)
Power Station: Pelican Point Unit: PPCCGT Generation lost: 203 Time: 2018-03-17 12:55:00
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-03-17)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA4 Generation lost: 449 MW Time: 2018-03-17 12:55:00
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2018-03-14, second)
Power Station: Yallourn W Unit: YWPS3 Generation lost: 379 MW Time: 2018-03-14 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2018-03-14)
Power Station: Yallourn W Unit: YWPS3 Generation lost: 285 MW Time: 2018-03-14 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang B,Victoria (2018-03-08)
Power Station: Loy Yang B Unit: LOYYB1 Generation lost: 535 MW Time: 2018-03-08 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A,Victoria (2018-03-08)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 530 MW Time: 2018-03-08 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2018-03-07)
Power Station: Yallourn W Unit: YWPS2 Generation lost: 313 MW Time: 2018-03-07 Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-03-06)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-2 Generation lost: 220 MW Time: 2018-03-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-03-06)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE3 Generation lost: 242 MW Time: 2018-03-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-03-04)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE5 Generation lost: 250 MW Time: 2018-03-04 Retweet