INCREASED RISK OF VOLATILITY

[mark-leonard-reynolds]

Can someone please point me to an API call/response which will allow me to see that there is a INCREASED RISK OF VOLATILITY for the day?

I can see from the live price page that the current period seems to have this info tagged.

The reason I'd like to detect this, is that I can apply a more aggresive grid battery charging policy, to ensure the battery is fully charged so that I can discharge it into likely spikes later in the day.

I can see "spikeStatus": "none", for the current period, which of course, is not what I'm after. Battery needs time to charge up!

And this of course, is likely needing grid charge, as when the supply seems to be VOLATILE, it's often cloudy and raining or stormy, so not much sun to charge up the battery.

[madpilot]

Look at the spike status in the forecasts.

If you are using the /prices/current endpoint, you can add ?next=24 to the URL, and you'll get the next 12 hours of forecasts. They have a spikeStatus field. Then you can work out whether you want to pre-charge your battery or not.

[mark-leonard-reynolds]

I think I'm going to use the same approach to look for very high forecast daily prices, which indicate the same sort
of volatility, which may not trigger the AEMO spike warning. So if there is forecast during the next 24 hours for FIT
going above say $1/kwh, then assume spending 25c/kwh is a good gamble, and load up the battery, even on a
bad solar day. After all, it's the bad solar days (across the whole state) which lead to high FIT prices. Well, one of the
reasons.
Thing is, I've seen lots of high forecast days, where some suppliers seem to swoop in, supply power, and then the
spot prices drop. So hasn't seemed worth the risk in the past. We will see.

[mark-leonard-reynolds]

Things are looking like a repeat for tomorrow, according to current AEMO forecast.
https://aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM

Setting up grid charging for earlier tomorrow I think.
Something seems broken with amber forecast prices around the spike times though. Might resolve as we get closer...
buy

sell

[rob0101]

You might want to look at the Amber Electric Users Group on Facebook.

Full of people keen to hear such stories and share outcomes.

[mark-leonard-reynolds]

I was wondering where all the amber geeks would be hanging out :-)
But facebook? Really? Think I'd rather talk to myself here :-)

[rob0101]

There's also whirlpool.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/9xkzp6q3