Re:Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut e...
by Ekaros on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:08AM
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It always felt wrong to me that you could buy some type of electricity when none was produced. It is not fungible like that. Only correct way is to cut off the loads when your wind-powered or solar-powered contract do not have matching production.
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Re:Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut e...
by siddboots on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:41AM
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It's just a contract - if both parties are happy to deal with the energy in bulk, then there's no problem.
However, if either the buyer or seller thinks there is a risk some of the generation won't be produced, there's still lots of ways to manage that risk in a relatively simple way. Probably the simplest is a variation on "take-or-pay" where the buyer holds some of the risk when the generator is curtailed, i.e., not dispatched by the system controller. Essentially that means that the buyer is committing to have load available to generate against.
I've also seen renewable PPAs with time of use specified either in volume for purchase, or in the price structure.