Destructive electrical energy costs could make extra financial sense than switching wind generators off
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The large progress in renewable power throughout Europe means electrical energy crops are producing extra energy than is required, forcing them to pay power companies to discharge it – successfully, promoting at a unfavourable worth. On the face of it, this would possibly look like an excellent factor for cash-strapped households, however unfavourable costs don’t essentially carry down folks’s electrical energy payments, and also can carry a bunch of downsides, together with disrupting the enterprise case for constructing extra renewables.
The worth of energy is basically decided by the “day-ahead”…
