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naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

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naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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French day-ahead power fell to -€5.76 a megawatt-hour, the lowest in four years, in an auction on Epex Spot.
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    I’m a Fiscally Responsible American Republican and this is EXACTLY why we SHOULDN’T transition away from Oil! Imagine all the RESEARCH into YACHTS and MANSIONS the CEOS can’t do now that prices are NEGATIVE!

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      Prices go negative in Texas somewhat regularly

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        Doesn’t mean much when it collapses due to weather.

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          Or starts brush fires because their infrastructure’s horribly neglected.

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        In Texas so does the grid.

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          How could stupidity go so wrong?

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            I live here, and the best way I can describe it, is as “enthusiastically, and ignorantly, stubborn”

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              All the while waving a gadsen flag.

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