Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 01 Aug 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 01 Aug 2023
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anyone have any idea why the wholesale power price might be spiking? it's not particularly cold... 🤔
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Profit
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@StudChud @kudra@firefish.nz yeah but it rarely happens, usually there's a reason like insanely high demand because of extreme cold or heat..
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profiteering
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@Seagoon see above - it's unusual without unusual circumstances, which I can't see, unless there's a power station offline or something. Vaguely remember r/melbourne sometimes being useful for these kinds of questions as someone would know something about the industry...
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the cost of generation remains the same, the same number of watts are being generated if not more, the only reason to put the price up is profit
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@Seagoon yes, but usually there's someone willing and able to supply the power at a lower than silly price except at times when there is stonkingly excessive demand. It looks like something went awry in SA, but not sure what. Sure the right wing pundits will assume something about batteries failing...
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Hey you on firefish now lol.
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@uselessmoderngod@aussie.zone yes testing to see if it worked to reply to the bot on this instance 😊
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@uselessmoderngod@aussie.zone Firefish and Lemmy don't play together as well as Firefish and Mastodon, but Firefish is prettier and has some neat features
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