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.
2 Commentson "AEMO Preliminary Operating Incident Report (re Tue 13th February 2024) is available"
I thought this was interesting on the LOR3 condition (from section 5 of the preliminary report):
There was enough generation in the Victoria region to meet demand, however, due to constraints on the network,
this generation was not able to supply the load. At 1420 hrs on 13 February 2024, an actual LOR3 condition was
declared and AEMO issued a direction under section 116 of the National Electricity Law (NEL) (deemed a clause
4.8.9 instruction under NER 4.8.9(a1)(2)) to load shed 300 MW of load in the KTS/TTS/ROTS metropolitan area to
maintain the system in a secure operating state.
If you go into document properties in the PDF you can see
Created 16/02/2024 15:30:38
So unsurprising that you only became aware of it today.
I thought this was interesting on the LOR3 condition (from section 5 of the preliminary report):
There was enough generation in the Victoria region to meet demand, however, due to constraints on the network,
this generation was not able to supply the load. At 1420 hrs on 13 February 2024, an actual LOR3 condition was
declared and AEMO issued a direction under section 116 of the National Electricity Law (NEL) (deemed a clause
4.8.9 instruction under NER 4.8.9(a1)(2)) to load shed 300 MW of load in the KTS/TTS/ROTS metropolitan area to
maintain the system in a secure operating state.