I’ve only had about 2 hours this morning to put this together, and have no more time to analyse today, but the following will be of interest to some of our WattClarity readers:
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.
Beginning prior to 7am and progressing through the morning of Wednesday 2nd January 2013, there was significant volatility in the Queensland region of the National Electricity Market – including four spikes at or above $1,000/MWh.
Here’s a walk-through of how it unfolded, with some pointers to some of the contributing factors.
This weekend, we have prepared this analysis of the entries we received for our “Peak Demand Forecaster” competition for winter 2009.
In conjunction with this analysis, we thought it would be of interest to also incorporate this chart (generated from a BETA version of the NEM-Review v6 software package) to highlight how the peak NEM-Wide demand unfolded over the previous winters…
PS – it’s been highlighted to me that the outage at Yallourn comes coincident with Industrial Relations action onsite, and with a fire that is under investigation at present.
PS – it’s been highlighted to me that the outage at Yallourn comes coincident with Industrial Relations action onsite, and with a fire that is under investigation at present.
Here’s some further news at the ABC, and in the Australian.
If you know more, please do add this in comments below (or let us know offline).