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Superficially, it's the same. But the semantics change because it's an auction based system. ERCOT have no idea how much load shedding capacity they have ahead
by phire 3y ago
Superficially, it's the same. But the semantics change because it's an auction based system.
ERCOT have no idea how much load shedding capacity they have ahead of time. They have to start bidding on the wholesale market and see which bids are accepted.
Which makes it harder to do long-term planning and potentially slower to respond in an emergency.
It also result in headlines like this :)
- toenail 3y agoSuperficially it's also far superior, because the amount of energy consumption that can be switched off is far bigger than that of a single home. Yes, bad journalists will always write bad headlines that are inaccurate or wrong to generate clicks.