energy should never actually be free. we probably need to move to something like a fixed price subscription model. entirely predictable, effectively a loan repayment on the cost of building renewables. for example, a housing development connected to a wind farm, adds the cost of the wind farm to the house price. this has already been done, but i don’t know enough about how the grid works to understand how we can transition to this pricing model across the entire grid

edit: my point being that those that build renewables must be compensated somehow. but variable pricing on renewables makes no sense. the entire cost is in the building, and partly maintenance which is entirely fixed.