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.
In Queensland we experienced one of the mildest summers I can remember. As a result of this, demand levels were subdued for most of summer. However, for a couple of days in late February, summer finally arrived, and struck with a vengeance.
Now that we’re through the first week of Australia’s new Carbon Tax, we thought it would be of interest to have a look at whether there has been any significant change in dispatch patterns across the NEM as a result….
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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).