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.
Sunday 1st October 2023 and the 'minimum demand' point for the QLD region (measured by 'Market Demand') has fallen lower still on a sunny spring long weekend.
On Friday 29th September 2023 we look back at Kogan Creek via 'Bids & Offers' in ez2view over 20 days to see what's visible, in terms of any impact of the current Industrial Action
Yesterday (Tue 26th Sept 2023) we saw Kogan Creek drop offline for a few hours - and were asked if this was related to industrial action. Here, with the benefit of 'next day public'...
Also in the news this week (a Federal Court judgement in relation to AER instituted proceedings against Engie in relation to Pelican Point from 8th Feb 2017) ... which is coincidental with upcoming changes...
The print version of the AFR today talks about possible industrial action at Kogan Creek power station - prompting us to take a quick look at current Availability projections.
For a couple of reasons, I've updated/extended the trend of monthly aggregate statistics for wind farms across the NEM ... now out till the end of August 2023.
On Wednesday 6th September many Semi-Scheduled (wind and solar) units in northern QLD were 'constrained down' for System Strength reasons. We take a first look as part 1 of a Case Study (more parts...