Then there's government business. The Bonneville Power Admin is a federal agency that controls all the power production & sales in the northwest. A couple years ago, we had an oversupply of water and the hydro power plants were producing more than the grid could handle. It was necessary to shut down the thousands of windmills that line the Columbia River because there was no need for their power.
In private industry, if you over produce, you cut back and take a hit until demand increases or your inventory is down to a marketable level. Not so here. The BPA ordered the windmills shut down but they paid the owners for power they didn't produce, using our tax money to pay them.
