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by pjc50 869 days ago
It's probably time to phase out curtailment payments. If renewable is to be the default form of generation it can't have special treatment forever. And it would be an incentive to deploy battery systems on the wind farm side of the grid connection to smooth peaks.

(The whole "overstating your forecast" thing sounds a lot like LIBOR)
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mschuster91 869 days ago
> It's probably time to phase out curtailment payments. If renewable is to be the default form of generation it can't have special treatment forever.

Curtailment payments are an incentive for the grid operators to build out transport capacity and for grid consumers to invest into dynamic load control.

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ViewTrick1002 869 days ago
Do like Sweden or Norway and split the grid at bottlenecks like the Scottish border and it will be solved by itself by having lower prices in Scotland. It is a political problem, not technical.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

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