sci.energy

In article <@>,
frank87 wrote:
>
>The first futures for a certain moment will raise the price of
>electricity, so the next futures will be bought for other moments.
>
>The same system can work for all kinds of generating systems: buy a
>right to sell or a right to buy at some moment. A trader (probably your
>local net operator) can fit those together. Like some real time
>stock-market.

1) All of that trading back and forth cannot actually make any more
electricity available.

2) I'm not going to plug in a big load without knowing in advance
what the rates are going to be. To leave your car charging while
the price of electricity goes up and down like a stock market
consisting entirely of day-traders would be almost as stupid as
buying a house on an ARM.

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