Still watching the market (in between other preparations) we noted this emailed alert from the ez2view ‘Notifications’ widget noting a trip of BW03 unit immediately prior to the 16:10 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Wednesday 5th March 2025:
No time to look further, but here’s a quick snapshot of live NEM mainland frequency (measured at 100 milli-seconds, though this chart truncates a bit):
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.
Nick Bartels from Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the GSD2023 to examine minimum and maximum generation levels at various coal and gas plants in the market.
It’s fitting to book-end the week with a look at frequency performance overnight (into Saturday 31st May 2025) with two coal unit outages in NSW overnight to see what happened in terms of more ‘old style’ frequency disruption.
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