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.
Following the (very brief) initial article early this afternoon, here's some more of what we have been able to determine about today's fire at the new Victoria Big Battery facility near Geelong VIC.
Saturday evening 25th July 2021 saw the instantaneous production from wind farms across the NEM surge past 6,000MW for the first time and set a new 'all-time' record that's substantially higher than the previous...
A quick look at monthly stats shows that, whilst it's been blowing a gale in SE Australia in recent days, it's not yet set a new 'peak instantaneous wind farm output' record.
Returning to the price spike in NSW on Wednesday morning (to $15,100/MWh for 3 dispatch intervals) to explore some of the reasons why it happened - and why it happened unexpectedly.
Coincident with the AEMC's Final Determination yesterday (Thu 15th July) on FFR, there was also the Draft Determination published on Energy Storage Systems. Here are some (very) early thoughts...
This morning we see that there's been another slippage of expected return to service for Callide C3 - which will now have been offline over 8 weeks since the explosion at nearby Callide C4.