Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
It seems like a good first world problem to have, begging for engineers to come up with an elegant solution!<p>What can a country do with occasional excess power like this?<p>* Communal/City water pumps run only during periods of excess power in a week<p>* City managed parking buildings that charge electric vehicles for free during these periods<p>* Heck city/country runs a data center that would "turn ON" servers only during periods of excess power in grids - to be used for public purpose data munging!<p>* Run an internet archiver that spins up crawlers only during periods of excessive power..<p>* Use the excess power to run air purifiers or CO2 absorbers or something else cool for the environment that we would not run otherwise..<p>What would YOU do if you had free power?