Re:Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
by Filligree on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:35PM
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Which is precisely what we want to do. As mentioned elsewhere, negative prices happen when load is too low and artificially creating load is cheaper than making generators shut down.
It's an uncommon situation, because if it keeps happening then the power plant will indeed invest in giant heaters.
> just plug in an electrical heater placed outside
while that's cheap, it feels like a large waste of energy that could've been used for something useful.
There’s no reason to get so sophisticated: just plug in an electrical heater placed outside, and get paid. A negative price is a perverse incentive — unless we want to get rid of whatever thing is priced in the negative.