❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed data on Synergy's power plant outages and capacity credit refunds. The Minister provides a breakdown of planned and unplanned outage hours for various plants, as well as capacity credit refund amounts.
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(1) Will the Minister provide a list of the total hours of planned outages for Synergy's generation fleet, broken down by individual plant for each of the following years: (a) 2015-16; (b) 2016-17; (c) 2017-18; and (d) 2018-19 to date? (2) Will the Minister provide a list of the total hours of unplanned outages for Synergy's generation fleet, broken down by individual plant, and the reason for the unplanned outage for each of the following years: (a) 2015-16; (b) 2016-17; (c) 2017-18; and (d) 2018 to date? (3) Will the Minister provide the amount of capacity credit refunds either paid or accrued for Synergy's generation fleet, broken down by individual plant for each of the following years: (a) 2017-18; and (b) 2018-19 to date?
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Answered
8 May 2019
Responded by
Minister for Energy
Response time
13 days
(1) Duration of planned outages (hours)
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
(as at 20 March)
Cockburn
1,134
1,589
3,216
0
Collie
573
735
682
312
Kwinana GT
2,752
3,025
1,592
1,128
Muja PS
5,358
3,472
5,316
3,516
Pinjar
4,223
6,175
5,755
4,477
(2) Duration of unplanned outages due to plant failure (hours)
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
(as at 20 March)
Cockburn
31
47
713
4
Collie
96
37
178
82
Kwinana GT
437
318
589
155
Muja PS
1,073
131
932
2,128
Pinjar
521
334
578
394
(3) Amount of capacity credit refunds ($)
Facility
FY17/18
FY18/19 (To Jan19)
Collie PS
615,442.75
104,855.52
Muja CD
820,815.65
2,767,487.67
Cockburn PS
1,356,213.23
0.00
Kwinana GTs
474,287.24
72,643.06
Pinjar GTs
259,109.09
137,131.30
Mungarra GTs
3,505.35
101.79
West Kalgoorlie GTs
16,727.99
0.00
*Please note: The figures do not include Synergy Demand Side Program (DSP) refunds or Kemerton/BP Cogen (which are PPAs) RCR figures.
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
(as at 20 March)
Cockburn
1,134
1,589
3,216
0
Collie
573
735
682
312
Kwinana GT
2,752
3,025
1,592
1,128
Muja PS
5,358
3,472
5,316
3,516
Pinjar
4,223
6,175
5,755
4,477
(2) Duration of unplanned outages due to plant failure (hours)
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
(as at 20 March)
Cockburn
31
47
713
4
Collie
96
37
178
82
Kwinana GT
437
318
589
155
Muja PS
1,073
131
932
2,128
Pinjar
521
334
578
394
(3) Amount of capacity credit refunds ($)
Facility
FY17/18
FY18/19 (To Jan19)
Collie PS
615,442.75
104,855.52
Muja CD
820,815.65
2,767,487.67
Cockburn PS
1,356,213.23
0.00
Kwinana GTs
474,287.24
72,643.06
Pinjar GTs
259,109.09
137,131.30
Mungarra GTs
3,505.35
101.79
West Kalgoorlie GTs
16,727.99
0.00
*Please note: The figures do not include Synergy Demand Side Program (DSP) refunds or Kemerton/BP Cogen (which are PPAs) RCR figures.
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