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by exabrial 401 days ago
> Just last week we had negative prices for _every_ day during peak demand

Burning coal for negative prices is not a good thing.
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ZeroGravitas 401 days ago
Inflexible generation getting fined for inflexibility leads to innovations like running two shifts of coal generation. The UK pioneered it in their now totally shut down coal plants and Australia is now implementing it.
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exabrial 401 days ago
uh... yeah, so, back to burning 1/2kg per kw/h?
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