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victorbjorklundyesterday at 8:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Many times negative spot prices.


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XorNotyesterday at 10:37 PM

Which is bad, it's a market and infrastructure failure. Negative prices are to get generators to turn off.

A new feature on solar inverters is curtailment mode so they can be remote shutdown when the grid goes negative, since if you're on wholesale energy pricing you'll be charged if you keep driving the grid.