Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Green - An environmentalist community · 7 months agoGermany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negativemarkets.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down111cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squareMangoholiclinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIn 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.
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThis sounds like a weird deal. I feel like they should be paying Germany, not the other way round!
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.
This sounds like a weird deal. I feel like they should be paying Germany, not the other way round!