Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid - Futurology Today

It’s becoming increasingly common around weekends in France — which gets about two-thirds of its electricity from its atomic fleet

So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don’t have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.

The problem is turning it back on. Xenon poisoning is an issue the prevents reactors switching off and back on again.