Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients.
Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.
It’s now seven months since the SCADA outage on Sunday 24th January 2021 – and we’re finally able to complete and publish this (quite long) article exploring some of the implications for units on the LHS of the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation
Today (Wed 15th May 2024) Bruce Mountain writes an opinion piece in the Australian about the recent run of Administered Pricing in NSW, and what it means for the looming closure of Eraring and the energy transition.
Friday 14th July 2023 sees some media articles and commentary about several coal-fired generators running longer than previously thought, as the energy transition hits some speed bumps.
This is just the usual posturing we are seeing from industry claiming they will shut down and then having the Government throw money at them to stay open.
Very blatant that they choose to make this announcement with the new QLD Energy Plan to be released in less than a fortnight.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/gladstone-queensland-biggest-coal-fired-power-station-could-close-six-years-early
Alison Reeve from the Grattan Institute just told ABC News that power mainly goes to alu smelters which need reliable supply 14/7
When you look at the last 7 days “baseload” was 550 MW. But Gladstone also provided up to 1,230 MW during peak demand
This is just the usual posturing we are seeing from industry claiming they will shut down and then having the Government throw money at them to stay open.
Very blatant that they choose to make this announcement with the new QLD Energy Plan to be released in less than a fortnight.