Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Spooky23 4330 days ago
That's a very sophisticated way of saying that utility companies have some magical entitlement to say "Fuck you, pay me".

There's another answer that that a 5 year old could come up with, and happened to work very effectively for 75+ years: when the electrical grid is out of electrical transmission capacity, add more capacity.

Writing future contracts doesn't accomplish much, other than create jobs trading electricity, because the supply problem isn't generation, it's distribution. There is no market for electrical infrastructure.