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@ckent@urbanists.social
2024-05-08 11:09:33

Incredible profits on the power network today -- AUD $231 in 90 minutes.
Make money: Time-shift the sun.
This all reflects the support and reliability we're gifting the grid. The NSW power grid is in a week of crisis, with big "normal" power stations failing to help out when there are temporary problems with the link to Victoria, and seasonal lows in dinner-time wind solar.
(I just wish TV news — especially ABC News — would stop discussing nuclear since it…

Screenshot of my Amber Electric app, showing earnings for today (only) exceeding AUD $231.

This was on 17.8 kilowatt-hours of grid imports, and 22.2 kilowatt-hours of grid exports.  The difference is accounted for by solar generation exceeding home use, but the earnings is accounted for by the time-of-day pricing of electricity.

Power at dinner time is worth (and in demand) a lot more than power at lunch time, when the sun shines freely.

The sun is still powering dinner, but I get to make so…
Screen shot from a notification in the Amber Electric app received during the dinner-time energy crisis this week, where home owners like myself are being rewarded for stabilising the grid.  It reads:

PRICE SPIKES - MAY 8 We're seeing some significant volatility in the market in NSW and ACT over the last 24 hours, leading to some high price spikes.

This is being caused by some outages at major coal plants and limitations on the interconnections between QLD and VIC, combined with the Autumn lo…
@REfeeds@botsin.space
2024-03-06 21:09:33

CityLab Daily: The Financial Crisis Brewing in Uninsurable US Homes
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab

@REfeeds@botsin.space
2024-03-06 15:33:18

There’s a New Financial Crisis Brewing in Uninsurable US Homes
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab

@REfeeds@botsin.space
2024-04-02 13:46:14

The Other Side of the North Dakota Oil Boom: Evictions
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab