aemo_fcas: Frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) prices

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Frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) prices

Description

Returns regional FCAS market prices across the eight contingency services plus the two regulation services. Ten services are live in the NEM since R1/L1 Very Fast commenced on 9 October 2023.

Usage

aemo_fcas(region, start, end, service = NULL, intervention = FALSE)

Arguments

region	NEM region code.
start, end	Window (inclusive).
service	Optional character vector of service names (e.g. "RAISE6SEC", "LOWER60SEC", "RAISE1SEC").
intervention	Logical. See aemo_price().

Details

Thin wrapper over aemo_price(..., market = "fcas").

Value

An aemo_tbl with one row per interval and columns for each requested FCAS RRP (AUD/MW).

See Also

Other price: aemo_price()

Examples

op <- options(aemo.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
  now <- Sys.time()
  f <- aemo_fcas("NSW1", now - 3600, now)
  head(f)
})
options(op)

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