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  • Even if our energy market wasn’t profit driven, we would still have a shortage of energy, and either we would be burning up fossil fuels at an astonishing rate and a huge loss, or a number of heavy power users would be shutting down.

    Price is one way we have to control demand, but if we didn’t use it, we would need another system instead.








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    2 days ago

    Even when our power generation was state-owned, they still operated as a state owned enterprise model.

    If the price of your product is going negative, you have well and truly saturated the market. Even if our generation was nationalised, no government is going to build something where you have to pay someone else to use the output.