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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:25 JST Rich Felker

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   • Kevin Leecaster

   @GreenFire No, my "agenda" is ensuring that industry actually responsible for climate harm is responsible for paying to mitigate it rather than shoving the cost onto people's already-strained cost of living.

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:26 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @dalias
     The evidence is clear that since on a levelized-cost basis, solar and wind power generation are now competitive with fossil fuels. But since the supply of these renewable resources is variable and intermittent, unlike traditional power plants.

     The cost to consumers of using flat retail pricing instead of dynamic, marginal-cost pricing costs them more, but you seem to have an agenda that is opposed to promoting less fossil fuel burning so doubt I can convince you of anything.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:27 JST Rich Felker

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     • Kevin Leecaster

     @GreenFire Economist bullshit detected.

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:28 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @dalias
     ERCOT is a good example of why anecdotes can't be used to base policy on.

     In a non-regulated market in which producers may use renewable and non-renewable sources to produce electricity.
     Dynamic pricing increases investment in renewables if, under static pricing, producers mix both sources; and reduces investment if, under static pricing, producers only use renewables. In both cases, dynamic pricing improves welfare as consumers and producers become better off.
     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544220308021

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:29 JST Rich Felker

     • Kevin Leecaster

     @GreenFire Surge pricing for electricity is evil. It's a scam to saddle consumers with unbounded losses under deceptive promise of bounded, miniscule wins. See: the Texas thing a while back.