Why wind farms sometimes pay to get rid of power | Midwest Energy News: "Wind farms on the wrong side of a congested transmission line sometimes can’t give away the power they produce.
Instead, they have to pay someone to take it off their hands.
Negative prices are a rare quirk in the wholesale electricity market. They usually occur at night in areas with lots of wind, nuclear or hydropower and not enough customers or transmission to absorb it all."
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