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Load shifting, rooftop solar seen cutting need for peaking power: execs
Linking retail power costs to hourly fluctuations in wholesale power costs would be “a step in the right direction” toward minimizing peak-period needs, as would compensating rooftop-solar owners for their output at prices that reflect how much wholesale power costs that hour, the head of the Western Power Trading Forum said Friday.
WPTF Executive Director Gary Ackerman, whose group favors competition in power markets, said in a Friday interview that offering free or low-cost off-peak power — and actually paying…