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by anon23 942 days ago
Because there is effectively no way to store energy at scale, prices are extremely volatile, like from $1 to $1000 in five minutes.

If you want to buy a solar panel with a useful life of 10 years there’s basically no way to estimate how much revenue it will make. But if I promise to pay you $10 for that energy all year, you have some idea if your purchase makes sense.