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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November 2018
Unit trip: Eraring, NSW (2018-11-30)
Power Station: Eraring Unit: ER02 Generation lost: 545 MW Time: 2018-11-30 Retweet
Unit trip: Callide A and B, Queensland (2018-11-28)
Power Station: Callide Unit: CALL_B_1 Generation lost: 335 MW Time: 2018-11-28 Retweet
Unit trip: Callide A and B, Queensland (2018-11-25)
Power Station: Callide A and B Unit: CALL_B_1 Generation lost: 348 MW Time: 2018-11-25 Retweet
Decrease: Vales Point, NSW (2018-11-25)
Power Station: Vales Point Unit: VP5 Generation lost: 291 MW Time: 2018-11-25 Retweet
Unit trip: Tarong, Queensland (2018-11-25)
Power Station: Tarong Unit: TARONG#3 Generation lost: 173 MW Time: 2018-11-25 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-11-20)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA3 Generation lost: 354 MW Time: 2018-11-20 Retweet
Unit trip: Vales Point “B”, NSW (2018-11-06)
Power Station: Vales Point “B” Unit: VP5 Generation lost: 537 MW Time: 2018-11-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-11-06)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-1 Generation lost: 356 MW Time: 2018-11-06 18:20:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-11-06)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE3 Generation lost: 144 MW Time: 2018-11-06 11:50:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-11-04)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA3 Generation lost: 562 MW Time: 2018-11-04 Retweet
Unit trip: Liddell, NSW (2018-11-01)
Power Station: Liddell Unit: LD02 Generation lost: 350 MW Time: 2018-11-01 10:55:00 Retweet
October 2018
Unit trip: Mt Piper, NSW (2018-10-24)
Power Station: Mt Piper Unit: MP2 Generation lost: 583 MW Time: 2018-10-24 23:50:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2018-10-22) (second)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS2 Generation lost: 343 MW Time: 2018-10-22 22:40:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Yallourn ‘W’, Victoria (2018-10-22) (first)
Power Station: Yallourn ‘W’ Unit: YWPS2 Generation lost: 318 MW Time: 2018-10-22 18:10:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-10-16)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 345 MW Time: 2018-10-16 09:40:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-10-15)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE2 Generation lost: 196 MW Time: 2018-10-15 11:20:00 Retweet
Unit trip: Bayswater, NSW (2018-10-14)
Power Station: Bayswater Unit: BW01 Generation lost: 378 MW Time: 2018-10-14 Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-10-05)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 347 MW Time: 2018-10-05 Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-10-01)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 262 MW Time: 2018-10-01 14:40:00 There was also a decrease at Stanwell on the 1st of October. Retweet
Decrease: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-10-01)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 158 MW Time: 2018-10-01 09:55:00 There was also a unit trip at Stanwell on the 1st of October. Retweet
September 2018
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-09-28)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 260 MW Time: 2018-09-28 14:10:00 There was also a decrease at Stanwell on the 28th of September. Retweet
Decrease: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-09-28)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: 229 MW Time: 2018-09-28 11:40:00 There was also a unit trip at Stanwell on the 28th of September. Retweet
Unit trip: Stanwell, Queensland (2018-09-26)
Power Station: Stanwell Unit: STAN-4 Generation lost: ~140 MW Time: 2018-08-26 Retweet Stanwell Unit 4 had been behaving erratically this week
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-09-20)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE3 Generation lost: 189 MW Time: 2018-09-20 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-09-10)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 560 MW Time: 2018-09-10 Retweet Graph of four breakdowns in the past week:
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-09-09)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 350 MW Time: 2018-09-09 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-09-06, second)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 560 MW Time: 2018-09-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Loy Yang A, Victoria (2018-09-06)
Power Station: Loy Yang A Unit: LYA1 Generation lost: 558 MW Time: 2018-09-06 Retweet
Unit trip: Gladstone, Queensland (2018-09-02)
Power Station: Gladstone Unit: GSTONE4 Generation lost: 147 MW Time: 2018-09-02 00:30:00 Tweet
Unit trip: Pelican Point, SA (2018-09-01)
Power Station: Pelican Point Unit: PPCCGT Generation lost: 222 MW Time: 2018-09-01 13:50:00 Retweet