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.
We've facilitated a number of articles on WattClarity relating to the looming FPP changes (now 10 weeks away). Here's two images I've drawn up to (hopefully) illustrate my...
Early on Friday morning 14th March 2025, ElectraNet experienced an unplanned network outage - including the Hummocks - Bungama 132 kV line, and Hummocks - Waterloo 132 kV...
Various authors have shared articles about frequency, frequency control and Regulation FCAS in recent times (including 6 from Linton). Here's three things that jumped out to me in...
A quick article to record this large drop in 'Market Demand' in TAS, notified to us by the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view at 12:00 (NEM time) on Wednesday...
Which much attention focused on Queensland (in the wash out that has been TC Albert) a rogue Administered Pricing Notice (MN125439) for South Australia was a head scratcher,...
It’s Sunday morning 9th March 2025 and a reference to the Energex Outage Map shows many more orange splotches denoting unplanned outages (by virtue of ex-TC Alfred).
Taking another look (on Saturday afternoon 8th March 2025) at what we can see of those network elements in northern NSW that tripped on Friday morning 7th March...
Because not all have access to Anthony Cornelius' updates on LinkedIn, but many are interested in TC Alfred, I have shared Anthony's update from Friday morning 7th March...
The AEMO notes that, at 06:12 (NEM time) on Friday 7th March 2025 various 132kV lines between Lismore and Mullumbimby tripped, along with No 1 and 2 cables...
AEMO is seeing considerable uncertainty in forecasting daytime 'Market Demand' for QLD (and NSW, to lesser extent) in the near term due to uncertainties in the approach of...