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WaxProlixyesterday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

That's largely true, but on the flipside at least some of the rush of batteries into Texas to do ancillary services and provide redundancy are a result of greedy capitalists seeing the profits a few hundred MWh can get you in Texas (at taxpayer expense!) and rushing in to get a piece of the pie. So, markets!


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bee_rideryesterday at 4:52 AM

Wait, how does it work? If the government is using taxpayer money to buy services… that’s not really a free market solution in the conventional sense, right?

Of course if we have to pretend it is to get Texas to do it… fine I guess.

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