<i>This results in partially absurd rewards for powering off your mini-plant to stabilize the network.</i><p>Being paid <i>not</i> to output electricity or, similarly, being paid to consume electricity -- which is also a thing -- is absurd only at first glance. But really, it&#x27;s just transparent pricing.<p>And it incentivizes people to come up with ways to exploit it, either by storing power when it&#x27;s cheap and releasing it when it&#x27;s expensive, or by only consuming it when it&#x27;s cheap. I think it&#x27;s pretty neat.<p>It&#x27;s not a new thing, either: power has always been cheaper at off-peak (during the night), because big power plants such as nuclear plants can&#x27;t (or couldn&#x27;t, or wouldn&#x27;t) scale up and down based on time of day. This was exploited by making things such as a night storage heater, which truly <i>is</i> absurd, because it&#x27;s both impractical (slow to react to human capriciousness) and inefficient (energy losses during initial electricity generation and power transfer).