Post #2472336

2026-04-14 08:12 UTC

It&#39;s easy to forget that most people don&#39;t know that power will be free (or even sometimes negatively priced) when it&#39;s very sunny. I have also been arguing with the China team about what a power market even means. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/uk-households-power-renewables-soar

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@literatesavant@mastodon.au 2026-04-14 08:35

@solar_chase@mastodon.green the US is like, years and years away from this still, right? Now that I live in Australia I'm like, "Oh, I GET IT. Solar!"

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@bjn@mstdn.social 2026-04-14 09:00

@solar_chase@mastodon.green Australia is already giving electricity away for free in the middle of the day, but it is just a tad more sunny there than in northern Europe. I suppose it will just take a few more years before that happens here.

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@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 09:21

@solar_chase@mastodon.green This should be especially bad in places that have mostly fixed pricing for consumers, right?

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@soaproot@sfba.social 2026-04-14 19:13

@solar_chase@mastodon.green Hmm, I see the point about how free/negative pricing might just be a thing some days, but the UK conventional wisdom that they need more transmission (and I suppose batteries, although I'm not sure that is conventional wisdom there) doesn't strike me as obviously wrong either.

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@hhf@chaos.social 2026-05-28 06:45

@solar_chase@mastodon.green @isotopp@infosec.exchange in Germany it is now planned to charge people with a PV system additional money to finance the grid, because they do not consume enough and part of the grid access cost is hidden in the power price. Most people do not realize that all price plans break when people behave in unexpected ways.

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