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 a period when it was placed on the back-burner, due to other priorities, we've now re-started the development process for GenInsights21 and would invite you to pre-order your copy.
Some activity alerts prompt this short look at how the Victoria Big Battery is recovering from the industrial fire that took it out of action for a number of weeks.
Following from some analytical work performed in testing for Five Minute Settlement, here's a view of latency of rebids (all DUIDs, all commodities) in recent months that prompts a number of questions...
Looks like AEMO will be announcing a new 'lowest point' for Operational Demand in NSW later, given what has happened on Monday 4th October 2021 (Labour Day holiday).
It was too tempting to take some time today to look back on the first fully 5-minute bids from Friday 1st October (the start of Five Minute Settlement) to see how much has changed.
Today (Mon 27th Sept) we were alerted to this Virtual Information Session on Wednesday 29th September that some of our readers will be interested in (Enabling FCAS at Musselroe Wind Farm)
Just last Friday the AEMO notified stakeholders more broadly about their new Market Notice Framework about ‘Minimum System Load’ and/or ‘Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) Contingency’ ... prior to Sunday's new lowest point for minimum demand...
Sunny skies and mild weather in South Australia on Sunday 26th September sees a new (lower) point for 'Minimum Demand set in the South Australian region.
Following from the ESB's Final Advice, and inspired by the one year anniversary of publications the MT PASA DUID Availability data sets by AEMO (thanks to the ERM-sponsored rule change) we take a quick...
Only ~11 weeks after the end of Q2 2021 we're still exploring details of the extreme price outcomes. Here's some of the ways in which solar PV played a significant role in the price...
[POSTED AT ~13:00] On Sat 11th Sept 2021, the 'Grid Demand' in the NSW region has dropped to levels not seen for many, many years ... especially when considering it is in the middle...