• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Germany has lots of grid connections to other countries, and are pretty surely selling off what they can get rid of, but France has nuclear, Sweden and Norway have hydro, Denmark has wind and solar. All these markets are also currently negative. We’ve had negative prices for almost 14 days now, but somehow they went into plus today here in Denmark, although we (personally) had lots of sun and could sell 61,9 kWh from our solar panels.

    I just checked, and the prices are near identical between: Germany, Belgium, Poland, Austria, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

    https://data.nordpoolgroup.com/auction/day-ahead/prices?deliveryDate=latest&currency=DKK&aggregation=Hourly&deliveryAreas=AT,SYS

    Oh no, it’s too bad Germany isn’t surrounded by other countries it could sell that excess power to!

    Your sarcasm is misplaced.

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      7 months ago

      Gee, you mean some internet rando didn’t figure out a solution that no one in German energy could think of?

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        I think he was suggesting that it’s not actually a problem and this whole article was penned by someone with an agenda to paint renewables as bad.

        Which is a totally reasonable assumption honestly.

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        Of course it was sarcastic, which is exactly why it doesn’t make any sense. The sarcasm is what’s idiotic about the comment I replied to. Because it indicates that Germany isn’t using obvious options. Of course they are using those options, as are all other European countries.

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        I’ve changed the last part of my comment above to show that I responded to the original comment understanding it as sarcasm.