To provide some more colour about what’s been happening on Thursday 17th October 2024, here’s a snapshot of NEM Mainland frequency at 15:07 (NEM time) looking back only 15 minutes:
Here’s a snapshot of a collage of widgets from ez2view for the 15:15 dispatch interval:
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.
In this article we inspect power deviations from dispatched units that would have contributed to the frequency rise, and the deviations that would have contributed to the correction.
In Part 3 of this series with respect to Thursday 16th October 2025, we focus on when a large collective under-performance across all Semi-Scheduled Wind Farms and Solar Farms dragged the frequency outside the NOFB – down at 49.824Hz at 16:49:07.6.
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