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.
Today (Wed 15th May 2024) Bruce Mountain writes an opinion piece in the Australian about the recent run of Administered Pricing in NSW, and what it means for the looming closure of Eraring and...
A short (early afternoon) look at the progression of Cumulative Price in NSW, almost 7 days after the evening volatility on Tuesday 7th May 2024 started the climb to the Cumulative Price Threshold.
Following a conversation with one journalist yesterday, and a tweet from another journalist, here's an updated trend of NSW 'baseload' futures contract prices for 12 x quarters.
The ‘N::N_CTYS_2’ constraint equation (invoked due to a network outage on the Collector to Yass (3L) line) was one of the constraint equations material in volatile price outcomes in NSW on Tue 7th May...
It's Thursday evening 9th may 2024 and (almost exactly a week since it came offline) Eraring Unit 3 has commenced return-to-service after repairing a boiler tube leak.
With questions mounting up (internally and externally) about Wed 8th May 2024 in NSW, we take a quick first look at bids - using the ez2view 'Bids & Offers' widget looking back 30 days...
At 19:55 (NEM time) on Wednesday 8th May 2024, the NSW region commenced Administered Pricing for ENERGY and 10 x FCAS commodities, following a rapid spell of spot price volatility.
On Tuesday 30th April 2024 we reported of rumours about possible extension to Eraring Power Stations. In the 8 days that have followed since that update several things have happened. In this article we...
Blasting past 3 hours this afternoon/evening (and still counting), the run of spot price volatility in NSW drives the Cumulative Price up towards the CPT. Will it break the cap this evening, or tomorrow?
On Wed 1st and Thu 2nd May 2024 I appreciated the opportunity to participate in the EUAA National Conference for 2024. Here's the start of some reflections.