Consequently, when the water flow is available to generate large amounts of hydro power,
wholesale electricity prices drop.
Not exact matches
Because of renewable energy's subsidized production cost,
wholesale electricity prices have
dropped 60 percent since 2008.
In addition to wind curtailments, the regional supply and demand imbalances caused real - time
wholesale electricity prices at the West Hub in ERCOT to
drop, and even go negative, during periods of substantial wind generation.
Think Progress details the pretty wonky reasons why
wholesale electricity prices could
drop when (if, perhaps) Cape Wind ever finally gets built: