One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time.
As an author on WattClarity, Paul's focus has been to help make the electricity market more understandable.
There were two significant drops in frequency on Thursday 5th September 2024. Whilst the first coincided with (brief) Market Suspension, in this article we take a look at the second (around 16:45).
A few questions (from several different directions) gave us pause to run this quick query of how ‘Gate Closure #2’ times (in the rebid process) have changed over time.
On Sunday 1st Sept 2024, aggregate curtailment of Solar Resource from (Semi-Scheduled) Large Solar across the NEM reached 79.2% … in this follow-on article we explore the question ‘WHICH Solar Farms were curtailed … and WHY?’
A couple days after the end of ‘winter 2024’ the temperature has dropped by 10 degrees in Archerfield. We take a look at how temperatures in Archerfield through winter 2024 compare with the 18 preceding years to see how remarkable was the ramp in temperatures at the end of August 2024.
Whilst not reaching the heights of curtailment of Semi-Scheduled Large Solar, on Sunday 1st September 2024 curtailment of Wind yield across the NEM reached as high as 54%.
On Sunday 1st September 2024 the ‘minimum demand’ point in NSW ratcheted lower still – a drop of 6% on the preceding ‘lowest ever’ point set just over 10 months ago.
With the Severe Weather persisting in Tasmania into Sunday 1st September 2024, reports suggest ~5% of the population without power due to many localized network outages.
For ease of future reference (with more analysis coming – time permitting) we’ve extracted what we can find in the 2024 ESOO about Data Centre electricity consumption, and growth forecasts.