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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Negative? Sounds like music to the crypto-miners. Heck, can I get paid for shorting two wires together?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Usually in addition to electricity itself you pay for using the power grid per kWh. IIRC here in Finland it's around 0.07€/kWh. At one point due to some error the price of electricity went down to like -0.20€ and we were indeed paid to use electricity. Though we paid back with more expensive electricity a while after.