Brief note about NSW price spike on Friday 23rd October 2020

Winding down through Beer O’clock at the end of a long week with the team and the buzzing of my phone distracts to a few successive price spikes this afternoon in the NSW Region:

Here’s a snapshot of the 16:00 dispatch interval Time-Travelled back in ez2view showing some of what happened:

Out of curiosity, I pulled up the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view and also wound back to 16:00 – and see that, in this instance, the price spike was forecast in advance via the P5 Predispatch forecast:

Given that I’ve not even finished digging through what happened in QLD on Tuesday 13th October (Part 4 of the Case Study published yesterday), I’m not going to promise to dig further into this … but you know what they said about curiosity…