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naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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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        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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                It’s part of their heritage! Like 4 years of it! Certainly nothing before the Confederacy had anything to do with it.

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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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