Imagine if there were 10 gold miners on Earth and each extracts 1,000 oz of gold per year. Three go out of business due to mismanagement
or perhaps political disruption in their country halts operations indefinitely, leaving seven. Those remaining seven, however, now receive the
share of those shuttered gold miners as though they were still operating. Those 3,000 oz of gold per year are still being “extracted” and
distributed to the remaining 7 miners, but those remaining miners don’t have to operate additional machinery or change their operations in
any way. So now each remaining miner is suddenly extracting 1,428 oz per year, but doing no additional work
We use this same method to capture over $100/MWh from electricity that would otherwise have little demand.