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The surplus will be available soon. If you look at the trajectories of the installed capacity, it's obvious.

Germany is in the process to switch over to electricity for heating, too. There are a lot of incentitives to install new heatpumps for example.

Let's first have that surplus, and then we can discuss how to use it.

Edit: Having a mostly renewable grid with backup coal/gas/nuclear is much much easier than having an entirely renewable grid.

A surplus is already generated on specific days. At the moment the extra energy is thrown away, in case you didn't know.