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by Ekaros 385 days ago
This make lot of sense. Buying steady production of power almost at cost. So you get that power at lower margin. Your energy consumption is pretty flat so you utilize lot of it. And then you do not need to do futures or other type of contracts with extra costs to offset your price.

Matching base load with base production in this way is actually sensible move. And for maintenance periods you can just plan for and buy the power from market.