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!What can a country do with occasional excess power like this?* Communal/City water pumps run only during periods of excess power in a week* City managed parking buildings that charge electric vehicles for free during these periods* 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!* Run an internet archiver that spins up crawlers only during periods of excessive power..* Use the excess power to run air purifiers or CO2 absorbers or something else cool for the environment that we would not run otherwise..What would YOU do if you had free power?