A couple spots of rain have started to fall on our office deck this afternoon, which prompted me to open up the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view to have a look at what’s been happening with aggregate Solar Capability in the past hour across all the Semi-Scheduled Large Solar Farms in QLD.
Here’s a snapshot from the 16:05 dispatch interval:
One more thing to add to the ‘minus’ column of the ‘plus and minus’ supply-demand balancing act that is the AEMO’s job every minute of every day…
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.
Following AEMO’s warnings issued yesterday about possible extreme heat next week in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, I take more of a look at what might transpire and compare it to historical correlations between cities.
Three price spikes in the QLD region on Saturday 10th April 2021 help to remind us that how increasingly dependent we are on various machinations of the weather (including, on these occasions, cloud cover and solar output).
In this article we look more closely at 1st and 2nd February 2022 – and particularly at where and when the changes in rooftop PV occurred, narrowing our assessment to south-east Queensland regions. It follows on from Part A which inspected how Queensland rooftop PV output varied at the state level.
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