{"id":82996,"date":"2014-09-29T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=82996"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:57:55","slug":"swanbank-delay-wont-affect-tarong-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/09\/29\/swanbank-delay-wont-affect-tarong-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanbank Delay &#8216;Won&#8217;t Affect Tarong Restart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 29, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s news that Swanbank E power station near Ipswich will stay online for at least another two months will have no affect on the timing of the return to service of Unit 2 at Tarong Power Station.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by a Stanwell spokesman this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Stanwell announced that its two mothballed power generating units at Tarong &#8211; Units 2 and 4 &#8211; would be restarted and Swanbank E&#8217;s gas-fired generator would be put into cold storage.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Stanwell said the corporation would in future be balancing its hydro-electric, coal and gas generation to achieve the best value-for-money mix at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Unit 4 at Tarong has already gone back online; Unit 2 is expected to be restarted sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abc.net.au\/files\/290914-ipswich-eric-tlozek.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Radio<\/a><\/strong> reported this morning that Stanwell had decided to the delay the mothballing of Swanbank E because there was an excess of gas available at the moment, meaning costs had fallen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ABC, the 30 workers who had been expected to lost their jobs when Swanbank switched off, have also been given a two-month reprieve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Stanwell spokesman also confirmed today that Tarong North power station returned to service last Wednesday (September 24).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tarong North&#8217;s single generating unit went offline on July 23 because of damage to its turbine.<\/p>\n<p>It was offline for 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Final retuning was done late last week and the unit is now fully available for commercial operations up to a load of 400MW,&#8221; the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>This is slightly below its maximum output of 443MW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/08\/temporary-repairs-to-put-tarong-north-back-online\/\">Temporary Repairs To Put Tarong North Back Online\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/07\/mothballed-power-generating-unit-successfully-back-online\/\">Mothballed Power Generating Unit Back Online<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/07\/unit-4-almost-ready-to-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unit 4 Almost Ready To Roll<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/05\/500000-boost-from-overhaul\/\">$500,000 Boost From Tarong Overhaul<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/03\/tarong-restart-creates-50-jobs\/\">Tarong Restart Creates Jobs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/03\/turbine-heads-off-for-repairs\/\">Turbine Rotor Heads Off For Repairs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/02\/union-challenges-tarong-restart\/\">Union Challenges Tarong Restart<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/02\/powerful-times-ahead-at-tarong\/\">Powerful Times Ahead At Tarong<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/02\/tarong-units-to-be-restarted\/\">Tarong Units To Be Restarted<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s news that Swanbank E power station near Ipswich will stay online for at least another two months will have no affect on the timing of the return to service of Unit 2 at Tarong Power Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":57371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[34],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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