Worksafe investigating air duct collapse at Gippsland power station

Outage at power station broadens Victoria’s energy crisis

The disruption at EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn coal power station comes as Victoria is already facing the risk of winter gas shortfalls on peak-demand days.

Worksafe investigating air duct collapse at Gippsland power station

Yallourn Power Station, considered the region's most unreliable, has been forced to put one of its units offline for weeks after an air duct collapsed.

“Literally collapsing around workers:” Ageing coal plant suffers fresh unplanned outage

A 380 MW unit of an ageing Victoria coal plant will be out of action for at least two weeks, after an air duct collapsed during routine maintenance.

Unplanned outage at YWPS3 (tube leak) extended (due to air duct collapse)

Yallourn unit 3 came offline for a tube leak - but ABC reports (on Mon 9th June 2025) that 'an air duct in unit three collapsed during maintenance', so we take an initial look.