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Re: Electricity usage site

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Clifford Heath wrote:
>
> On 11/02/17 16:15, Phil Allison wrote:
>
>
> > this site gives continuous graphs for EACH state showing the demand in MW and spot price in MWh for electricity.
> >
> > https://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-dashboard
> > The dotted part on the right is a prediction for the next 24 hours.
> > The variations in spot price are insane !!
> > Imagine paying $14 per kWh yourself.
> 
> Imaging how sane the market could potentially become, if the retail
> pricing followed (or partly followed) the spot price - and you could
> get a display that showed what your retail spot price was. It's crazy
> to expect wholesalers to soak up that level of variability. Passing
> it transparently on to the end-user could radically reduce the
> variability in consumption.
> 
> I bet a lot more people would go and play under the sprinkler rather
> than turning on the A/C.
> 
>

** To be fair, the spot price varies by around 100 to 1 while demand only varies by an understandable 2 or 3 to 1. 

The anomaly is being created by the bidding system itself. 



.... Phil 

   

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Electricity usage site Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 21:15 -0800
  Re: Electricity usage site Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2017-02-11 17:39 +1100
    Re: Electricity usage site Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 23:16 -0800
    Re: Electricity usage site Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-11 19:01 +1100
    Re: Electricity usage site Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-02-12 02:20 +0000
    Re: Electricity usage site Chris Jones <lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com> - 2017-02-14 00:35 +1100
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  Re: Electricity usage site Tony <nomail@nospam.com> - 2017-02-12 18:09 +0800
    Re: Electricity usage site Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 03:18 -0800
    Re: Electricity usage site Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-17 20:09 +1100
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