Doesn't necessarily need regulation. Just make the penalties for failure to reduce promised power harsh.
This also lands fairly on renewables too. They would probably have more flexibility built into the contracts but the electricity price should be correspondingly lower too. Renewables have their place (especially if you can pair them with storage systems like hydro and potentially batteries) but treating them the same as more reliable systems for political reasons produces the normal nonsense.
Doesn't necessarily need regulation. Just make the penalties for failure to reduce promised power harsh.
This also lands fairly on renewables too. They would probably have more flexibility built into the contracts but the electricity price should be correspondingly lower too. Renewables have their place (especially if you can pair them with storage systems like hydro and potentially batteries) but treating them the same as more reliable systems for political reasons produces the normal nonsense.