With All Energy 2024 commencing this morning in Melbourne (and a number of the WattClarity team attending), here’s a short record of some morning volatility in the South Australian region – via a snapshot from NEMwatch at 07:35 on Wednesday 23rd October 2024:
There was also some volatility in South Australia yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 22nd October 2024), as we see in this record of price alerts delivered from a copy of NEMwatch (function also possible in ez2view and deSide®:
There’s much that can be observed in this picture, but no time to note in this article … but food for thought during the discussions at All Energy today and tomorrow. Will we see you there?
One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time.
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