Those who know me will understand that I’ve never really been one to watch the clock (unless you mean with respect to the Dispatch Interval clock, that is).
But under COVID-19 induced Work From home arrangements the blurring between ‘Work’ and ‘Home’ has stepped to a new level. So what’s one more commitment, in that environment – especially for a topic as important as how generation technologysuffers in the heat (pretty much all technology – each in their own ways). Particularly after the doozy of the summer 2019-20 that’s just passed us by:
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.
By now our schools are full again, and businesses are back at work – so it is timely to review how electricity demand in the NEM trended through the holiday months of December and January.
Here’s another animated case study of one more interesting time that occurred through summer 2013 in Queensland – on this occasion the evening of Saturday 12th January 2013.
This week saw very low average prices across the NEM (below $21/MWh average across the week in all mainland regions).
Except for 2 half-hours in Tasmania on Tuesday 7th February (when the price rose to just over $1,000/MWh), prices in Tasmania remained at and around $30/MWh for the whole week.
1 Commenton "‘Energy Technology – performing under (heat) stress’ – discussion on Friday 17th July 2020"
Heat stress and all that impressive collaboration I see? It could all do with asking about cooling the past-
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/10/hottest-day-ever-in-australia-confirmed-bourke-51-7c-3rd-january-1909/
That would be a doozy alright.