A quick note to record that Wednesday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 Tarong Unit 1 and then Tarong Unit 2 have both come offline from close to minimum load, only 15 minutes apart in time:
This was captured in the email alerts configured in the ‘Notifications’ widget within ez2view, as shown above.
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.
A graphical summary of a day when temperatures soared in NSW, dragging demand higher and (with the assistance of a relative shortage of supplies) also dragging prices to VOLL
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, invests some time to explore a number of different aspects of Easter Saturday (11th April 2020), each noteworthy in their own right (including low demand, high percentage share renewables, negative prices and dynamic bidding)
Partly prompted by a comment yesterday from a WattClarity reader (Liam), and powered by ‘next day public’ data, we take a look at Yallourn Power Station on Tuesday 12th November 2024.
Some brief data gathering and analysis, primarily because I could not resist the exploration, of what might have happened with the load shedding in the electricity grid across England, Wales and Scotland on Friday last week.
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