Interesting to hear that Huntly can only run on a certain Indonesian coal well a little bird has told me that the fast track application by BT Mining at Whataroro is all to do with Genesis
Thanks Peter, I assume it can run the local coal around Huntly but I am unsure if that fuel source is depleted or has simply become politically unusable.
Hat tip for the Whataroro that's a great little nugget to keep an eye on.
Hopefully there hasn’t also been a shift at a national from efficient generation to less efficient. There has been little discussion of the effects of closing the CGGT plants at Otahuhu and Southdown. Burning gas in the rankine units at Huntly would be a travesty.
I think National are in the mindset that any sort of generation is good. They are not alone in this thinking and there are a number of key players who fail to see that the productivity of our energy system is material to the productivity of our economy.
Our thermal fast response capacity is dropping as you point out with Otahuhu and Southdown. We can add to that list the 360MW TCC unit at Stratford.
Huntly becomes increasingly critical as "renewables" grow as a proportion of the grid, however it is better suited to baseload than rapid response which again effects the efficiency of the overall system. I suspect that as gas demand reduces as a result of de-industrialisation that what little gas remains will be directed to Huntly to reduce coal consumption but as you highlight this is not as efficient as CGGT.
Interesting to hear that Huntly can only run on a certain Indonesian coal well a little bird has told me that the fast track application by BT Mining at Whataroro is all to do with Genesis
Thanks Peter, I assume it can run the local coal around Huntly but I am unsure if that fuel source is depleted or has simply become politically unusable.
Hat tip for the Whataroro that's a great little nugget to keep an eye on.
Hopefully there hasn’t also been a shift at a national from efficient generation to less efficient. There has been little discussion of the effects of closing the CGGT plants at Otahuhu and Southdown. Burning gas in the rankine units at Huntly would be a travesty.
I think National are in the mindset that any sort of generation is good. They are not alone in this thinking and there are a number of key players who fail to see that the productivity of our energy system is material to the productivity of our economy.
Our thermal fast response capacity is dropping as you point out with Otahuhu and Southdown. We can add to that list the 360MW TCC unit at Stratford.
Huntly becomes increasingly critical as "renewables" grow as a proportion of the grid, however it is better suited to baseload than rapid response which again effects the efficiency of the overall system. I suspect that as gas demand reduces as a result of de-industrialisation that what little gas remains will be directed to Huntly to reduce coal consumption but as you highlight this is not as efficient as CGGT.