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I would guess that capacity is designed wrt average insolation and not peak; spot market generation takes care of the peaks.

• jimbob45 6y ago
  Right but the spot market generation wasn’t enough to subsidize upkeep and development of the local grid I thought. Grids needed to be nationalized (or city...alized) to allow citizens to pay taxes to upkeep the grids, which cut into the price-efficiency of solar. Again, I’m asking out of curiosity. My expertise is a few Reddit threads and some cursory Wikipedia research.
  • rrmm 6y ago
    Yeah, I don't know the area well at all. It seems like at some point you'll have to pay for the grid directly (ie, the power will be free-ish, you'll pay for the size of the wire to your house).
    • Ekaros 6y ago
      Standard in Finland. Our power and transmission pricing is separate. So you buy transmission from local monopoly and then can freely choose who you buy the power from. Which means that I and others who don't use electrical heating pay more for transmission than power itself. Priced on amperage for base cost and then some for per unit of power.