[dmitri1981]

From what I understand that does not really work. For example, you can't have jet fuel manufacturing based on negative prices, because you need to have high utilisation rate for manufacturing equipment itself. It's not economically viable to have that equipment sitting idle during times of normal electricity prices.

[bluGill]

If the primary cost is the machines you are correct. If the primary cost is energy, then low energy prices and extra machines makes sense.

Office work will ignore energy prices in general. Jet fuel manufacturing will if at all possible shut down when energy prices are high. If it isn't possible they will do some form of energy storage to cover high energy prices times.

[supernovae]

Statistical analysis would show regions where production is viable for x days per year and to be honest, a jet fuel manufacturer could just recognize this energy abundance and build its own grid and invest in solving these problems as a means of optimization / investment / market strategy....