Doing that at scale is tricky and requires a lot of people to participate in the mechanism, whereas the law only forces producers above a given size to particip

Doing that at scale is tricky and requires a lot of people to participate in the mechanism, whereas the law only forces producers above a given size to participate. The estimates we get from seasonal studies are usually close enough, especially since load shedding isn't a finesse exercise. The situations that require load shedding usually give operators only a few minutes to react, where analyzing the issue and determining a course of action takes the lion's share. Once you're there, you want the actual action to be as simple as possible, not factor in many details.