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by TheLoafOfBread 749 days ago
So what will happen when you get rid of "dirty sources"? It all looks good on a paper, but when your clean solar energy is not available, like during winter time, and you got rid of your dirty sources, what are you going to do?

How is energy company going to pay for grid maintenance, wages and general passives, when energy price is negative? This all looks like 1 step before bankruptcy of energy companies.

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You just turn them on.

Keeping a coal or gas plant on standby is not that expensive and you still saved a ton of fuel.