As a private household you only can benefit from negative prices if you have a smart meter and a contract, that supports it.

There is no "forced electrical" price on EU member states.
A company can sell for what ever price it wants.

Mao seized the country and imposed his will.
That was 100 years ago.

And are you seriously going to argue that one-party-rule is at all democratic?
Yes. Because it is the biggest parliament on the world. You can vote every day about topics that matter, IF: you are a member of the party.

Yeah, China has a different political system. Totalitarian Dictatorship with a Fascist management structure. That's not a good thing. That's not a system that represents the will of the people; it represents the will of the Dictator.

I strongly suggest to get a reality check.

Sorry, Gweihir. You are in many topics uneducated, and a kind of idiot, e.g. AI an energy grids.

I see you have absolutely no clue how an energy grid works
Actually, I am the mastermind behind the biggest energy grid in Germany.

Stupid idiot.

Yeah, but you do not benefit from a negative price ...
That was the point.

Yeah, but you do not benefit from a negative price.
That was the point.

In your world people just take time off medical leave without reasons?
Nope.
But no one is putting it into a work calendar.

What would be the point of that?

Most people do not even have/use a calendar at work.

What would be the point if a cashier in a supermarket puts "times" into a calendar?

And here is the crux of the problem: You do not represent everyone but somehow think you do.
Seems to be mutual :P

What wasnâ(TM)t âoeSuper Smoothâ about the Upgrade? ;-)
I accidentally installed the new OS on the USB stick, I was booting from.
So after several reboots, I figured: Oh my god, I am so stupid ... and finally installed it on the hard drive of the Mac.

Were you left with anything not working, or wonky?
All works fine!

There is no regulation that forces you to sell for a negative price.
So: (1) is winning.

It is cheaper to sell for 2h some excess energy than to power down an expensive plant and ramp it up later again.

For example a French Nuke. Or a German coal plant.

I own it, it's just the 25 years of hosting i bought for $12 a year at the turn off the century finally ran out

Generally people keep their solar installs for at least one year, rather than replacing your panels, wiring, controllers and batteries each year, attempt to get two or more years out of them. This should help keep your cost basis down as inflation causes prices to increase

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters.

No it wasn't. The system has glaring flaws in that it requires all members to act in good faith. Soon as they dont, there are zero guardrails.

The advantage of sodium battery means anybody can produce it, there's no geopolitical alliances needed to manufacture them. Lithium is super rare by comparison. Any and every country can domestically produce sodium batteries forever. The low temp operating envelope of sodium is interesting, but only 11% of the worlds population lives somewhere that is useful. The big benefit is any country can stick a straw in the ocean and build a battery factory regardless of sanctions. Go look at Iran right now if you want to understand why I keep harping on this point.

I dunno, people on boats and in vans buy this stuff and run it for a decade or more without problems. Name brands like anker and ecoflow have very solid track records and 5-8 year warranty on most of this stuff. It's not fly by night Chinese crap. All this stuff has a very solid track record at this point. I bought my first MPPT way back in 2017 it's still alive and kicking no problem

Well that was with i think 32 panels, breaker box upgrade, and i forget 10 or 20kwh worth of battery. Effectively fully off grid except dec and January for our climate