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No, it's not. It's a practical problem, not an economic one, but leave it to the tankies here to take it as an opportunity to show how many slogans they have learned.
Except it'd be much less of a practical problem if the question "but who gets paid" would be taken out distributing excess energy.
How about this: power generation and distribution is not as easy as you think, it requires lots and lots of infrastructure and maintenance and that has a cost. If prices go negative too much it might become a problem to keep that running. There, that wasn't so hard, now was it?
Negative prices are short-term self-regulation reactions of the market, they can't stay negative long-term, just because of how the system works. So I'm not sure what you're worried about.
Also, cut the condescending tone, it does nothing but make you look like an asshole.
Condescending is what you get when you make everything into your favorite enemy