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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by z2 on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:47PM (#15170766)
It could be curtailment due to overcapacity or lack of transmission infrastructure to get the electricity to consumers [1]. I'm not quite sure why a more expensive source wouldn't be shut down instead, but maybe the unpredictability of wind power makes them the first to fall when demand is low?

1: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/why-arent-those...

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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Caveman_Coder on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:55PM (#15171079)
The key thing is reliability and most Balancing Authorities will have procedures dictating which generation comes offline.
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