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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (19 children)

It’s becoming increasingly common around weekends in France — which gets about two-thirds of its electricity from its atomic fleet

So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don't have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.

[–] just_another_person 11 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Well if that's actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don't need energy production, they need storage.

As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.

[–] Dimantina 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yeah storage is sadly difficult and time consuming. I mean if we aren't just using a crap ton of lith-ION.

[–] Luvs2Spuj 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hydrogen gets shit on loads, but this is exactly the kind of thing it can do pretty well. When you have excess, you don't need to have to worry about efficiency in the same way. Then it's ready to go once needed.