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European electricity prices tumble into negative territory amid glut of green energy (markets.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You build wind turbines and do not use the electricity. So it might have been smarter to just not built them. At the same time, this is an important price signal to built more storage, grid connections and add felxible demand(with proper pricing system, so people actually do it).