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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by cdogl on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:18PM (#34363162)
Not if the market provides incentives to curtail, which it does with negative pricing. If other energy sources can curtail enough at the same price, they’ll do it. Otherwise nuclear will. The costs you’re alluding to can’t be avoided, but they’ll be spread across the system.

This is all predicated on the market operator actually having the systems in place to signal the need for curtailment effectively, of course. That’s a whole different question.

Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by eru on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:18AM (#34365941)
I'm not sure why you would ever curtail something like wind?

Could you at least mine bitcoin or something like that?