Also worth a short note this evening with this snapshot from the ‘Bids & Offers’ widget in ez2view, filtered down to just showing bids for Eraring Unit 3 (i.e. ER03), which has started coming back online this evening:
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.
Yesterday (Tue 26th Sept 2023) we saw Kogan Creek drop offline for a few hours – and were asked if this was related to industrial action. Here, with the benefit of ‘next day public’ data, we take a first look.
Given that we’ve taken an interest in what’s going to happen with the looming closure of Eraring Power Station, I thought it would be useful to our readers to highlight Peter Hannam’s article in the Guardian today about a (possibly soon) decision about an extension to service.
Here’s a snapshot of the ‘Unit Dashboard’ widget in ez2view focused on Eraring unit 4 on Thu 9th Nov 2023 to illustrate the impacts of ramp rates in truncating available capacity in the bid.
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