No time for commentary on this article today, but worth a snapshot from NEMwatch at the 12:00 dispatch/trading interval showing some price volatility in QLD and NSW in the middle of the day:
Might come back to this later with a ‘Part 2’ … but more focused on GenInsights21 at present, along with other things.
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.
Ausgrid have published a statement this morning that 140,000 customers and 50,000 homes and business either lost power or had their electricity impacted during yesterday’s thunderstorms in NSW.
In order to help us (internally) map out all the different threads to explore in terms of what happened on Friday 31st January 2020 on a remarkable day in the NEM, I’ve identified a few of the key threads here over the weekend. More articles to follow as time permits….
Based on some preliminary analysis of the Powerlink’s ‘Qdata’ set (available in ez2view) we present our current hypothesis as to the sequence of the events yesterday in the QLD region, where 600MW of solar generation was lost, causing the price to spike to MPC.
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