| > That's a price, not a bill. It's an auction. Electricity is traded there. And how do you think the cost in the bill is determined? > That's nonsense. "Markets" don't need to be predictable. There are lots of markets, where predictability plays a minor role. There are also renewable energy forecasts, just like there are weather forecasts. Knowing that there won't be much sun tomorrow doesn't cause prices to drop. It simply confirms that they will be very high. Which is exactly what the day-ahead market does. > In the future we will have much much more electricity capacity from renewable. Lots of business will then take advantage of that. We live in the present, not in the future. And for it not to be a problem in the future, someone in the present has to think about it. It's a problem in the present. You're basically putting this problem off indefinitely, you don't care that it exists, you don't care to solve it. > That's a completely new market. Which does not exist outside of your dreams... > energy intensive companies have long-term electricity contracts. Additionally many of these companies can steer their demand. Not always. That said, someone must must pay anyways. And if you have a fixed rate and the variable rate goes up, somebody loses a lot of money. It happens like that in every market. It also happened post-covid with fixed-rate mortgages. > That's all yesterday thinking. Germany is not only connected to Sweden (which it is indirectly) and countries/companies can regulate the export of electricity. All beautiful. The fact remains that the Swedes don't want more connections because of German network problems. That they have past connections says nothing about the current and future state of Germany. And the statements speak for themselves, it's a disaster. > Sure not. It's the fear of modern technology. Empty words. > But you assume "limitations" of renewable energy which simply are not there or only temporary. For a lot of these "limitations" we will see solutions, like large interconnected grids, demand steering, usage of over-capacity in fuel production, large batteries, ... A lot of whishful thinking. You hope in solutions. But now we have problems, its a fact. > We have seen this "limitation" thinking decades ago, when the German electricity industry (mostly coal and nuclear) claimed that renewable energy could only provide a few percent energy share. The grid would be unstable. The reality: the German grid is still super reliable and we approach 60% electricity from renewable energy - in a country with very little hydro capacity. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/higher-german-grid-fees...
Nothing is free. It's increidible how all the problems I show you are not problems. The only thing that's important is the future and that they will be solved. No one will solve them unless we first accept their existence. All you do is deny them, or minimize them, postponing them to future non-solutions. |
A cost of a bill is determined by the AMOUNT a buyer buys from a certain seller at a certain PRICE, plus the extra costs (like taxes, fees, ...).
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