>>the fact that the plants cannot easily be shut down and restarted means that they sometimes operate at a loss when there is ample supply on the market
>This is an interesting economic quirk I hadn’t thought about.
this "quirk" should be a non-issue with a functioning energy market. if renewables are flooding the market with cheap electricity, but only during the day, and there's a massive deficit during the night, then the deficit would cause prices to go up and make the remaining generating capacity (natural gas, nuclear) more profitable.
>This is an interesting economic quirk I hadn’t thought about.
this "quirk" should be a non-issue with a functioning energy market. if renewables are flooding the market with cheap electricity, but only during the day, and there's a massive deficit during the night, then the deficit would cause prices to go up and make the remaining generating capacity (natural gas, nuclear) more profitable.