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"Victoria’s Yallourn brown coal-fired power plant is racking up an alarming
number of unplanned outages, a new report has found, underscoring the
significant reliability concerns dogging the state’s ageing coal generation
fleet – and the urgent need to shift to firmed renewables.
A Nexa Advisory report on the 1,450 MW Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s
Latrobe Valley has found that the coal plant experienced an unplanned outage
for at least one of its four generators for 32 per cent of the time over the
course of 2024.
The picture is even worse when factoring in planned outages, the report finding
that each of the four generators at Yallourn was out of action for roughly 12
weeks of the year including closure for scheduled maintenance.
Yallourn, which is one of Australia’s dirtiest coal power plants, is due to
retire from service in 2028, after its owner, EnergyAustralia, made the call to
bring forward its closure date from 2032, due in part to the rising costs of
maintaining the ageing kit."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
