alt Hacker NewsIn my country (for people with a so called "dynamic pricing" contract) the price of electricity already drops significantly when we have a load of green energy (wind, solar). I guess this is just a side effect of not having a well-balanced grid. But still that's already kind of a CO2-based pricing - although not directly
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Zeebrommer • today at 9:39 AM
Mostly yes, but it works the other direction as well: a fossil power station may not want to completely shut down because it expects more demand later in the day, and offer a few hours of low cost electricity to stay in the merit order.
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This is what makes me wonder how much additional benefit an explicit carbon signal actually buys you over normal dynamic pricing