After a little over a week away, I’m striving to skim and scan many different data sources with respect to the ‘what did I miss?’ question – and the following late afternoon weakness in system frequency (on Sunday 30th November 2025) jumped out at me:
At some point in future we might be able to look into:
The extent to which under-performance of VRE was a factor:
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.
As the 5th article in an evolving series that progressively explores the (apparent self-forecasting glitch and) frequency spike on Tuesday 19th August 2025, we take an early look at Solar Farm performance.
We’ve already posted about how ‘Mainland Frequency dragged downwards around sunset, on Sunday 30th November 2025’. Here, we see how underperformance across Large Solar Farms was a major cause.
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