"Coal-fired generators however, incur significant costs stopping and starting and require many hours to restart. This means they continue generating throughout negative pricing periods as it is more cost-efficient to incur the costs of negative pricing than shutting down and then starting up again."
And thats why you see Windmills stopped. Because they are flexible and only used when needed.
"Dispatchable Power" and not costly inefficient "Baseload".
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