A couple spots of rain have started to fall on our office deck this afternoon, which prompted me to open up the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view to have a look at what’s been happening with aggregate Solar Capability in the past hour across all the Semi-Scheduled Large Solar Farms in QLD.
Here’s a snapshot from the 16:05 dispatch interval:
One more thing to add to the ‘minus’ column of the ‘plus and minus’ supply-demand balancing act that is the AEMO’s job every minute of every day…
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.
At 15:15 (NEM time) on Thursday 5th February 2026, Dan posted about ‘Early afternoon price spikes in NSW on Thursday 5th February 2026’. The volatility did continue …
A rainy Saturday morning reminds us the price volatility for Q2 in QLD has not totally gone away … with elevated prices for ENERGY and also Contingency FCAS (Raise 6 second and Raise 60 second).
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).
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