>It's a moot point because negative electricity prices reflect producing more than is necessary, the reason why it's negatively priced is because it's being generated at the wrong time (which is the stupidity of solar, it works best when there's less load)
This is simply a new market reality that electricity consumers have not quite adapted to yet.
(Efficient) markets take care of this kind of thing. They're really good at it. It's stupid to keep pretending that they don't.
The only reason why it works in Germany and not, say, in the US is because the corporations that run the grid in the US are also producers and they are more interested in milking their monopoly than actually improving their networks.
Similar to how Comcast refuses to upgrade their networks.
This is simply a new market reality that electricity consumers have not quite adapted to yet.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-27/molten-aluminum-lak...
... but it didn't take them long to respond.
(Efficient) markets take care of this kind of thing. They're really good at it. It's stupid to keep pretending that they don't.
The only reason why it works in Germany and not, say, in the US is because the corporations that run the grid in the US are also producers and they are more interested in milking their monopoly than actually improving their networks.
Similar to how Comcast refuses to upgrade their networks.