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Third Yallourn unit back online amid ongoing flood crisis
Jun 28, 2021 – 11.41am
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The flood-stricken Yallourn coal power plant in Victoria has brought more generating capacity back online, taking further pressure off the electricity grid in the early winter high-demand period.
A third generating unit at the Latrobe Valley site returned to operation on Sunday even as owner EnergyAustralia warned of long-term repairs needed for the diversion of the Morwell River.
The wall of the river diversion cracked and came close to collapse as it was swamped with more than 30 times the normal volume of water in extremely heavy rains just over two weeks ago. The flood threat shut down three out of the four units at the 1480-megawatt Yallourn generator and triggered the declaration of an “energy emergency” by the Victorian government.
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