{"id":3543,"date":"2026-10-15T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:06:54","slug":"stunning-example-of-market-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/stunning-example-of-market-working\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stunning example of market working&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3543\" class=\"elementor elementor-3543\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a15c51e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a15c51e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9196193 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9196193\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It bears repeating, ad nausea, consumers respond to retail prices.<\/p>\n<p>So now that we have cheaper daytime tariffs, combined with home batteries, consumers are demanding more energy in the middle of the day.&nbsp;<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">And not a little. That whole window is &#8220;normally&#8221; a trough that has AEMO worried about minimum demand being so low coal generators struggle to get lower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55cea85 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"55cea85\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fdf337 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1fdf337\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mckensie.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3545\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mckensie.jpg 943w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mckensie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mckensie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mckensie-768x765.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a3659ff e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a3659ff\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3cb66c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e3cb66c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">See\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/stunning-example-of-market-working-households-embrace-free-power-offer-causing-major-spike-in-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RenewEconomy<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0reporting on this\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/hamish-mckenzie-australia_i-was-interested-that-the-ceo-of-aemo-said-share-7515937698453540864-vvG3\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAZeJosBDF9o2g6attew3BthN18zFjJ-0zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn post by and\u00a0Ham<\/a><a style=\"font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/hamish-mckenzie-australia_i-was-interested-that-the-ceo-of-aemo-said-share-7515937698453540864-vvG3\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAZeJosBDF9o2g6attew3BthN18zFjJ-0zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ish McKensie<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It bears repeating, ad nausea, consumers respond to retail prices. So now that we have cheaper daytime tariffs, combined with home batteries, consumers are demanding more energy in the middle of the day.&nbsp; And not a little. That whole window is &#8220;normally&#8221; a trough that has AEMO worried about minimum demand being so low coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrify-everything","category-green-energy","category-community"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}