* with apologies for the pedantic ones, in juxtaposing William Shatner’s lines into recognition of the passing of Ian McKellan** Sir Patrick Stewart a few days ago
** woops, don’t actually know how that happened, as I was thinking, and thought I was typing, Sir Patrick Stewart … thanks for the correction Tytowatt
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.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, takes a detailed look at how VIC1-NSW1 transfer capability has been limited frequently due to constraints related to the 051 line in southern NSW, and what it means in terms of inter-regional settlements residue accumulations, market efficiency overall, and the energy transition.
Wednesday morning 12th February 2024 sees rapid and large oscillations in prices across all regions – which results from (and/or leads to) oscillations in output of many units. One of the contributing factors is suspected to be the newly composed ‘N-BU_330_TX_ONE’ constraint set for an outage related to Project Energy Connect.
Given the heightened level of interest in the progressive release of capacity on Project Energy Connect (and some strange initial outcomes) worth another article on Wednesday 4th November 2026 noting MN146032
Today AGL Energy announces a big impairment … with a big chunk related to long-term wind offtake agreements which AGL entered into between 2006 and 2012.
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Haha, Ian McKellan is Gandalf/Magneto and is still alive. Patrick Stewart is Xavier/Picard and took over from Shatner in Star Trek.