In south-eastern Australia, the capacity of conventional power has run down to the point where there is just enough to meet the peak of demand at dinner times in summer and winter. Occasionally, it falls short and a bit of invisible load shedding with the, in my view, Orwellian-sounding Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) scheme keeping the problem out of sight of the plebs.
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