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Nowadays it is mostly renewable subsidies without a clause for negative price, marginal cost is 0, if they are paid at a fixed price they will produce and dump it on the market, in Nederlands they big glasshouse turn on the light when the sun is at its peak and earn money. And there is also inflexible baseload, that can't cycle up and down at the rate of changing demand or renewable ramp.



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