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.
Yallourn unit 3 came offline for a tube leak – but ABC reports (on Mon 9th June 2025) that ‘an air duct in unit three collapsed during maintenance’, so we take an initial look.
On Friday evening (28th May) and again this evening (Sun 30th May) my phone buzzed plenty of times – due to price volatility, and also alerting on low IRPM (enabled with Callide units offline, and low wind harvest at peak demand time).
1 Commenton "A few stories in (coal) generator outages (at Wednesday 9th April 2025)"
Including Callide C3, that appears to show that the entire coal fleet of Australian generators had an equivalent forced outage rate, EFOR, of ~5% for the period in question.
Including Callide C3, that appears to show that the entire coal fleet of Australian generators had an equivalent forced outage rate, EFOR, of ~5% for the period in question.
Not a disaster, then?