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Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative (markets.businessinsider.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In fact we have to pay the neighboring countries to take the excess power in order to lighten the load on the grid. Switzerland and Austria will then use the power to pump up water to store the energy.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

This sounds like a weird deal. I feel like they should be paying Germany, not the other way round!