There Was So Much Wind Power In Germany This Weekend, Consumers...

There Was So Much Wind Power In Germany This Weekend, Consumers Got Free Energy
By
Jesper Starn
30 October 2017, 8:00 pm GMT+7
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“A stormy weekend led to free electricity in Germany as wind generation reached a record, forcing power producers to pay customers the most since Christmas 2012 to use electricity. Power prices turned negative as wind output reached 39,409 megawatts on Saturday, equivalent to the output of about 40 nuclear reactors. To keep the grid supply and demand in balance, negative prices encourage producers to either shut power stations or else pay consumers to take the extra electricity off the network.”

Taken from Bloomberg.
Headline of course refers to last weekend.

Geography works against a similar wind-based headline ever appearing for Australia, but you’d have to think one day in the far distant future a same same solar-based headline couldn’t be ruled out. Bring it on.