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.
A quick initial look at two lengthy periods of Non-Conformance at Aldoga Solar Farm on Sunday 12th October, with the first period seeing large negative Dispatch Error, and a blip in system frequency.
We’ve already looked at how there was a drop in system frequency at ~10:41 NEM time (outside of the NOFB) in conjunction with trips of units at Yallourn Power Station. Well, believe it or not there was a couple drops – not as big – later in the day.
In Part 3 of this series with respect to Thursday 16th October 2025, we focus on when a large collective under-performance across all Semi-Scheduled Wind Farms and Solar Farms dragged the frequency outside the NOFB – down at 49.824Hz at 16:49:07.6.
Given the large ramp in frequency around midday Thu 6th Nov 2025, coincident with a large apparent ramp in ‘Market Demand’ in Victoria, we suspect a data glitch.
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