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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid (fortune.com)

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[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Am I the only one that doesn't understand how something could fall into a negative price range? Like does that mean the power companies have to pay the people using power? And how is power being that cheap a problem in any way? Isn't cheap accessible power what we've been striving to achieve??

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