I was keen to see if there was any noticeable blip in System Frequency resulting from the unit coming offline on Saturday 4th October 2025, so quickly extracted a 3-hour run of data from one of our higher speed (i.e. at 0.1 second cadence) monitors in Brisbane:
It’s difficult to see any downwards blip at all, in the 5-minutes prior to 08:06 yesterday morning … and that’s a good thing!
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.
Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
A very short article for Wednesday 6th November 2024, such that we might follow up later, to note the following two wobbles in frequency in the mainland NEM today
Among other aspects, a large dip in solar UIGF aligns with the frequency deviation observed on 19th August 2025.
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