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Please provide a citation that renewables have a non-neglible marginal cost.
> Furthermore, if you pay negative prices as a result of a renewable surge, that might as well be considered into the marginal cost.
With a lot of imagination.
> couldn't provide a stable supply without e.g. natural gas
Alright, we'll keep those nuclear power plants that run on natural gas for now.
> or a buffering solution that currently doesn't exist (at scale)
We've got a way to build things that don't exist yet. It's called "engineering".
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Please provide a citation that renewables have a non-neglible marginal cost.
> Furthermore, if you pay negative prices as a result of a renewable surge, that might as well be considered into the marginal cost.
With a lot of imagination.
> couldn't provide a stable supply without e.g. natural gas
Alright, we'll keep those nuclear power plants that run on natural gas for now.
> or a buffering solution that currently doesn't exist (at scale)
We've got a way to build things that don't exist yet. It's called "engineering".