Surprised they’re putting everyone on same timeslot. Would have expected some staggering to be helpful

▲ defrost 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From elsewhere:

   this applies to NSW, South Australia and part of Queensland.

so NSW and South Australia will be staggered in real time as they are in different time zones.

As for everybody in the same time zone .. they are all seeing the same sun angle at noon (more or less) and all sharing the same over supply of power from all the grid connected solar power rooftops and farms. It's free surplus power during that time frame.

	▲	Havoc 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah i get that they're all seeing similar but you'd still want to align this new demand with the output curve in some form of approximated pattern. Plus also prevent the sharp spike you'd get from everyone turning on their stuff at a coordinated hour. You're gonna have a bunch of stuff on timers all hit this at the same time. That makes life hard for the people balancing the grid's supply & demand. Bit like in the UK they had issues with everyone watching popular TV shows and then turning on the kettle after in a perfectly syncronized timing across the country

▲ aragilar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There's too much available power then (curtailment/negative prices are fairly common now on sunny days), and not enough during the evenings, so it's an incentive for those who don't have/can't get batteries (e.g. renters) to shift their habits. It also can be spun as a cost-of-living action.