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billybongo

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09/11/20

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Originally posted by acorn ↑

Be careful basing all your facts on wiki. It's always better if you know people that actually worked at and operated Hazelwood.

Btw. Wiki will tell you that Hazelwood's nameplate capacity is 1600mw.

Hazelwood's life is/was based on the coal resource. Not the power station.

Power stations are constantly repaired, maintained, rebuilt and major components such as boilers, turbines and generators are replaced. A bit like Grandpa's axe actually. " It's 40 years old but we've replaced just about everything except the building in that time. "

Contrary to what the coal trolls like to post.

Eventually they get too old and it is simply not worth fixing them anymore. That is where Hazelwood got to. Unsafe, unreliable. Boiler leaks constantly. Especially in peak periods. Then there was the asbestos issues.. While asbestos was the miracle product when Hazelwood was built, it became the enemy years later. That's science and technology for you.

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In the 11 months to Feb 2017 Hazelwood produced 8509 Gwh.

So running more than 9000 Gwh over a year during a period where a $400 million upgrade was needed to get the station up to scratch. That's impressive.

At a claimed $650 million (estimated at time of announcement) to generate 1000Gwh with wind gen plus a $200 million battery to manage the heartbeat shall we say the cost of replacing Hazelwood with wind power generation would be somewhere around $7 to $10 billion dollars up front?

There is some big coin hanging there for players in this game.
I can see the incentive to save the planet here ... $$$$.

I do think folk should declare any financial interests or dependency they have in these projects when discussing.
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