• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Those hourly price changes are wild. I feel like electricity doesn’t cost 100x more at 9 am than what it costs at 10 am

    • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Doesn’t to you! It might to produce. Your bill is averaged.

      This is why there is a market incentive to find cheap energy storage. If you can buy at 1x and store till it’s 100x… Well…

  • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
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    2 days ago

    In surprised Brazil is not sitting at 0. For decades now 90% is hydroelectric. Most of the rest is nuclear.
    And Paraguay shares half of the second largest dam in the world and sells excess electricity to Brazil.