• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 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, although we (personally) had lots of sun and could sell 54 kWh from our solar panels.

    Denmark has had negative prices for 14 days, and we are connected to the grids of Germany, Sweden, Norway and UK. Of course Germany has similar connections to even more countries.

    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 comment is based an a false assumption that they are not already doing that.

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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.