• orrk@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    decreasing certain plant outputs.

    let’s be honest, this is the real threat, oil/coal/natgas based power production would take a hit midday, because at the end of the day, the shareholder is simply more equal than you are, and he is owed the income

    • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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      6 months ago

      no, it’s an engineering reason. The total energy into the grid has to equal the total energy out, and large generation plants can’t just be spun up and down at will. The generation network has to coordinate changes in capacity and synchronize resulting line frequency shifts.