Curiosity got the better of me so I grabbed the ElectraNet 2024 TAPR and (using page 48) put together the following picture to show the rough location of the transmission disruptions:
Times shown (in NEM time) are the times noted in the Market Notices in the earlier article (i.e. when the ‘unplanned outage’ occurred, not when the Notices were published).
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.
If I had time, we’d explore three separate questions we have about what happened in South Australia on Wednesday 12th February 2025. In this article we take a first pass at one of those questions … what was the state of play in terms of contributions to meeting the very high level of demand?
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….
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