as burn notes, this is all about what it makes sense to ask customers to pay for. it's cheaper to pay generators to turn off for a few hours each year than to spend billions on infrastructure that will hardly ever be used. it also means fewer pylons.


this is the "smart grid": you can't get much more out of the assets, unless somebody repeals the laws of physics, so we end up selling non-firm capacity that occasionally has to be taken away

as burn notes, this is all about what it makes sense to ask customers to pay for. it's cheaper to pay generators to turn off for a few hours each year than to spend billions on infrastructure that will hardly ever be used. it also means fewer pylons.


this is the "smart grid": you can't get much more out of the assets, unless somebody repeals the laws of physics, so we end up selling non-firm capacity that occasionally has to be taken away