>you have to literally pay someone to consume that energy,
Here's the thing. That's a rule and not a technical problem. Absolutely no reason to do this other than rules and regulations.
Here's the thing. That's a rule and not a technical problem. Absolutely no reason to do this other than rules and regulations.
People don't even bother to argue why it's bad, they've just seen so many headlines telling them it's bad they don't question it.
The people who pay that cost to the people using the energy are people running energy generators that suffer wear and tear when they ramp down.
Or sometimes it's a subsidy for the use of clean energy being passed on to ensure the clean energy is actually used, not wasted.
All upside, no problems at all.
In Germany's case it's the tax payer, thanks to extremely generous subsidies that are excluded from state aid regulation