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What I assume federal grid operators are doing is balancing supply and demand on the scale of the whole country and with international connectors, for the sake of long-term resilience.
If you are a state strong on the supply side, you may feel you are making less profits than you could, because the regulator is capping your output to balance supply with others.
Now, you *are* making less profit locally, but you are buying resilience for it.