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The proper solution is to raise the price of electricity.
by Gunax 3y ago
The proper solution is to raise the price of electricity.
- 22c 3y agoYes, I don't understand why this is not the solution.. They don't even have to raise it for everyone (ie. if they don't want everyone else to subsidise the cost to larger consumers). If your workload is such that it causes grid instability, you should pay at least $X more for the service, where $X is the cost of grid instability. This way if it's too expensive for big customers to run a workload which exceeds the capability of the grid, they'll go elsewhere. This would incentivise the grid operator to improve stability such that they could better support the big customer's workload.
- cwillu 3y agoThat's already how billing for industrial levels of power works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/articles/reducing-power-factor-cost https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/articles/reducing-power-fact... https://www.bchydro.com/news/conservation/2019/your-power-factor-what-it-is-and-how-to-reduce-it.html https://www.bchydro.com/news/conservation/2019/your-power-fa...