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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August 2019
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2019-08-12, first)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS4 Generation lost: 161 MW Time: 2019-08-12 13:30:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2019-08-10)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS2 Generation lost: 172 MW Time: 2019-08-10 15:20:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2019-08-07)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD04 Generation lost: -137.19365 Time: 2019-08-07 22:30:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2019-08-06)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS2 Generation lost: 131 MW Time: 2019-08-06 00:50:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2019-08-05)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS4 Generation lost: ~100 MW Time: 2019-08-05 08:45:00 Retweet This is the earlier of the two breakdowns shown in the image. See also the Unit 2 breakdown on 6 August.
July 2019
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2019-07-17)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD03 Generation lost: 251 MW Time: 2019-07-17 23:45:00
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2019-07-11)
Power Station: Yallourn W Unit: YWPS3 Generation lost: ~400 MW Time: 2019-07-11 Retweet
Unit trip: Mortlake, Victoria (2019-07-08)
Power Station: Mortlake Unit: MORTLK12 Generation lost: 260 MW Time: 2019-07-08
June 2019
Unit trip: Bayswater, NSW (2019-06-30)
Power Station: Bayswater Unit: BW03 Generation lost: 394 MW Time: 2019-06-30 12:10:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Callide, Queensland (2019-06-24)
Power Station: Callide Unit: CALL_B_1 Generation lost: 330 MW Time: 2019-06-24 13:30:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Bayswater, NSW (2019-06-21)
Power Station: Bayswater Unit: BW01 Generation lost: 319 MW Time: 2019-06-21 04:35:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2019-06-19)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA3 Generation lost: 560 MW Time: 2019-06-19 08:35:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Tallawarra, NSW (2019-06-13)
Power Station: Tallawarra Unit: TALWA1 Generation lost: 106 MW Time: 2019-06-13 13:35:00 Retweet
May 2019
Unit trip: Loy Yang B, Queensland (2019-05-29)
Power Station: Loy Yang B Unit: LOYYB2 Generation lost: 331 MW Time: 2019-05-29 10:40:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2019-05-26)
Power Station: Tarong Unit: TARONG#4 Generation lost: 320 MW Time: 2019-05-26 15:45:00 Retweet
Decrease: Eraring, NSW (2019-05-22, afternoon)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER03 Generation lost: 312 MW Time: 2019-05-22 13:25:00
Unit trip: Eraring, NSW (2019-05-22, morning)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER04 Generation lost: 559 MW Time: 2019-05-22 01:40:00
Unit trip: Yallourn W, Victoria (2019-05-19)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS1 Generation lost: 214 MW Time: 2019-05-19 00:30:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2019-05-18)
Power Station: Tarong Unit: TARONG#4 Generation lost: 282 MW Time: 2019-05-18 10:15:00
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2019-05-18)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA2 Generation lost: 530 MW Time: 2019-05-18 02:15:00
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2019-05-16)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-2 Generation lost: 272 MW Time: 2019-05-16 10:25:00
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2019-05-15)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD02 Generation lost: 350 MW Time: 2019-05-15 18:20:00
Unit trip: Eraring, NSW (2019-05-15)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER04 Generation lost: 299 MW Time: 2019-05-15 15:40:00
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2019-05-14)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 302 MW Time: 2019-05-14 09:05:00
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2019-05-08)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS1 Generation lost: 147 MW Time: 2019-05-08 01:05:00
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2019-05-05)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS3 Generation lost: 140 MW Time: 2019-05-05 14:00:00
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2019-05-02)
Power Station: Tarong Unit: TARONG#3 Generation lost: 113 MW Time: 2019-05-02 13:15:00
April 2019
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2019-04-19)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS1 Generation lost: 136 MW Time: 2019-04-19 01:05:00
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2019-04-12)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE2 Generation lost: 130 MW Time: 2019-04-12 06:45:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Callide A & B, Queensland (2019-04-06)
Power Station: Callide Unit: CALL_B_1 Generation lost: 330 MW Time: 2019-04-06 12:35:00 Retweet