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.
Tweet at your own peril A quick mea culpa: after squinting at an ez2view layout early this morning I dashed off a tweet suggesting that six of AGL Energy’s eleven coal-fired generation units were offline – three at Bayswater, two…
The 2023 ESOO contains some some reporting (and data) about one particular contingency plan … delaying retirement of existing thermal generators (with Eraring a case in point).
This is just the usual posturing we are seeing from industry claiming they will shut down and then having the Government throw money at them to stay open.
Very blatant that they choose to make this announcement with the new QLD Energy Plan to be released in less than a fortnight.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/gladstone-queensland-biggest-coal-fired-power-station-could-close-six-years-early
Alison Reeve from the Grattan Institute just told ABC News that power mainly goes to alu smelters which need reliable supply 14/7
When you look at the last 7 days “baseload” was 550 MW. But Gladstone also provided up to 1,230 MW during peak demand
This is just the usual posturing we are seeing from industry claiming they will shut down and then having the Government throw money at them to stay open.
Very blatant that they choose to make this announcement with the new QLD Energy Plan to be released in less than a fortnight.