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The current system has created massive price variability which neither voting citizens nor industry are willing to accept. It provided a grid which eliminated nuclear and coal power which a large portion of the voter demographic wanted (for valid and non-valid reasons depending on who you ask), but it added a deep dependency on optimal weather, imports of natural gas and electricity from neighboring countries, which design has demonstrated high price variability based on supply and demand. The average price of energy has also slightly increased (20-ish%?) but it is really the variability that is the main problem when a single month can cost more than the sum of all other months. Average price isn't significant when there is an inelasticity of demand.

The outcome is political instability when voting citizens and industry demand that the government solve the issue, and people get more upset as the energy market get more unstable. A secondary effect is that most political solution to this problem results in significant government costs which get put on taxes and energy fees, which only infuriate people more when price variability continues.



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