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The Coal Impacts Index is the most comprehensive list of breaches, breakdowns, and pollution events at Australia’s coal fired power stations ever assembled.
The Index uses a variety of data sources to track four main kinds of ‘incidents’ at the 16 coal power stations in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, that make up Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM).
Licence Breaches
Breakdowns
Toxic Air Pollution
Emissions
Refers to total scope 1 emissions (t CO₂-e) in the year to 30 June 2017 according to the Clean Energy Regulator.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition on 3 occasions, in reference to exceedance of pH and electrical conductivity at monitoring point 7.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to a power failure to the control station at the Liddell discharge valve, which affected conductivity and flow monitoring equipment.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to a dust leak from silo resulting in an uncontrolled release of dust and visible plume.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to failure of the Ravensworth Ash Line resulting in ash slurry discharge.
The Victorian Environment Protection Authority alleges Loy Yang A did not comply with two licence conditions, in reference to strong winds generating fugitive dust in the coal mine attached to the power station, which discharged off-site due to the strength of the winds.
AGL, Loy Yang A, VIC
Origin Energy, owner of Eraring Power Station, is fined $15,000 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority after an incident where dust from the power station’s ash dam was blown offsite in September 2016. The EPA Director calls Origin’s failure to appropriately manage storage of ash unacceptable.
The Victorian Environment Protection Authority alleges Loy Yang A did not comply with two licence conditions, in reference to strong winds generating fugitive dust in the coal mine attached to the power station, which discharged off-site due to the strength of the winds.
AGL, Loy Yang A, VIC
The Victorian Environment Protection Authority alleges Loy Yang A did not comply with 2 licence conditions, in reference to strong winds generating fugitive dust in the coal mine attached to the power station, which discharged off-site due to the strength of the winds.
AGL, Loy Yang A, VIC
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Eraring Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to a build up of Ferrous Chloride in the condenser tube on return to service.
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The data in the Coal Impacts Index is collated from a number of sources, including government reports and tracking, corporate databases, research reports and self-reported data from power stations. For more information about the individual sources for each of the incidents listed in the index please see the Sources page.