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.
Whilst there were many things that went wrong on Tuesday 25th May 2021 (last week), guest author Allan O’Neil highlights that there were at least 4 things that went right – contributing to a much less severe outcome than would otherwise have been the case.
Looking back at system frequency, we see a noticeable drop in system frequency around ~15:45 (NEM time) on Saturday 5th October 2024.
(a) There’s no large trip of a coal unit that coincides
(b) But it *might be* the result of a large collective under-performance (relative to Target) across the Semi-Scheduled fleet NEM-wide ?
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