Whilst there may have been other factors, this (~450MW of additional consumption through the period certainly) would have contributed to the bump in prices.
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.
On Friday afternoon we asked the question ‘What’s up with Waratah BESS (unplanned outage till 3rd May 2026)?’. It was great to see (on Monday evening) Angela MacDonald-Smith answer some of these questions in the AFR, and then a media update from Akaysha Energy.
Another* of our keen readers (and ez2view users) flagged some more machinations to us with respect to Waratah BESS that occurred yesterday (Monday 23rd March 2026).
Identifying 5 distinct time periods (from 26th Sept 2025 to 21st Nov 2025) with Waratah BESS, we take ez2view and some external references to try to piece together sequence of events in 3 of these 5 time periods.
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