If they're ramping as part of a system reliability service, then should be doing it under automatic generation control, not betting on the energy market, and they would have committed a certain amount of up and down regulation some hours in advance. The cost question is whether it makes sense for them to bid for that reliability service to begin with.
Which goes back to my argument that this is to a large extent about market design and not technology.
Which goes back to my argument that this is to a large extent about market design and not technology.