Unfavourable electrical energy costs could make extra financial sense than switching wind generators off
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The massive progress in renewable vitality throughout Europe means electrical energy crops are producing extra energy than is required, forcing them to pay vitality corporations to discharge it – successfully, promoting at a adverse worth. On the face of it, this would possibly seem to be a superb factor for cash-strapped households, however adverse costs don’t essentially convey down individuals’s electrical energy payments, and may also convey 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”…
