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
January 2018
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2018-01-12)
Power Station: Tarong Unit: TARONG#3 Generation lost: 108 MW Time: 2018-01-12 09:45:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2018-01-11)
Power Station: Yallourn W Unit: YWPS1 Generation lost: 124 MW Time: 2018-01-11 23:10:00 Retweet
Unit Trip: Kogan Creek, Queensland (2018-01-11)
Power Station: Kogan Creek Unit: KPP_1 Generation lost: 195 MW Time: 2018-01-11 11:35:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-01-10)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 161 MW Time: 2018-01-10 Retweet Loy Yang A also tripped the day before.
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-01-09)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 230 MW Time: 2018-01-09 Retweet Loy Yang A also tripped the day after.
Decrease: Eraring, NSW (2018-01-07)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER03 Generation lost: ~275 MW Time: 2018-01-07 Retweet
Decrease: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-01-06)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 264 MW Time: 2018-01-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Millmerran, Queensland (2018-01-01)
Power Station: Millmerran Power Plant Unit: MPP_2 Generation lost: 156 MW Time: 2018-01-01 17:40 Retweet
December 2017
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2017-12-28)
Power Station: Tarong Power Station Unit: TARONG#3 Generation lost: 314 MW Time: 2017-12-28 17:10
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2017-12-26)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA4 Generation lost: 528 MW Time: 2017-12-26 20:00:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2017-12-26)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE1 Generation lost: 230 MW Time: 2017-12-26 15:50:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Tallawarra, NSW (2017-12-25)
Power Station: Tallawarra Unit: TALWA1 Generation lost: 187 MW Time: 2017-12-25 18:15 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2017-12-24)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 460 MW Time: 2017-12-24 05:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Kogan Creek, Queensland (2017-12-23)
Power Station: Kogan Creek Unit: KPP_1 Generation lost: 350 MW Time: 2017-12-23 17:35 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2017-12-22)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 355 MW Time: 2017-12-22 07:30
