Why Cheap Renewable Energy Isn’t Lowering Your Electricity Bills.
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Why are electricity prices still so high when more and more of our power is coming from cheap renewables like wind and solar? This video takes a deep dive into the strange way electricity markets actually work in the UK, Europe and the United States, exploring marginal pricing, Contracts for Difference, gas price exposure, nodal pricing, interconnectors and the growing debate around “decoupling” electricity prices from fossil gas. Is the current system fundamentally broken, or simply struggling to adapt to a renewable energy future?
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