Re: "When the wind don't blow, the power won't flow"
In article <slrnfpmllp.80t.frank87@xxxxxxxxx>,
frank87 <frank87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The first futures for a certain moment will raise the price of
electricity, so the next futures will be bought for other moments.
The same system can work for all kinds of generating systems: buy a
right to sell or a right to buy at some moment. A trader (probably your
local net operator) can fit those together. Like some real time
stock-market.
1) All of that trading back and forth cannot actually make any more
electricity available.
2) I'm not going to plug in a big load without knowing in advance
what the rates are going to be. To leave your car charging while
the price of electricity goes up and down like a stock market
consisting entirely of day-traders would be almost as stupid as
buying a house on an ARM.
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