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by pyrale 410 days ago
Doing that at scale is tricky and requires a lot of people to participate in the mechanism, whereas the law only forces producers above a given size to participate.

The estimates we get from seasonal studies are usually close enough, especially since load shedding isn't a finesse exercise.

The situations that require load shedding usually give operators only a few minutes to react, where analyzing the issue and determining a course of action takes the lion's share. Once you're there, you want the actual action to be as simple as possible, not factor in many details.