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Solar power glut boosts California electric bills. Other states reap the benefits (www.latimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

So its something along the lines of California produces so much solar energy during the day it can't use it all and don't have the resources to store it, so they have to sell it to other states. But those states may not need the power, and there's so much supply that either it goes to waste, or California pays them to take it?

Also, on top of that, there's a whole industry of electricity traders who aren't even power companies just looking to make money off of electricity production, as well as companies like airlines looking to buy Renewable Energy Credits to offset their carbon emissions (bleh), which incentivize a large production of Solar that doesn't get used.

The state's utilities also apparently buy electricity from solar farms for a pre-negotioated long term price that doesn't really take into account any price fluctuations, or at least to the scale they've seen with the amount of production they've got.

I feel like on one hand, its good that they have so much power they don't know what to do with, but on the other hand, there's a whole mess of people with monetary incentives involved with this that somehow, that translates to California pays too much for having too much electricity.