Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row::In total, there were 149 hours of total renewables generation, 95 of which saw the Portuguese grid exporting to Spain

  • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure I still pay all the renewable energy I consume at home. I wish the bill was zero, that would be amazing.

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        2 years ago

        Ah, the old “I’m sucking your money tit as long as I can while my industry dies and I refuse to innovate with my profits” tax.

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      2 years ago

      Yea I was curious about that, is there a certain amount that’s paid for? If it was all free, it would incentivize some people to exceed normal usage

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        2 years ago

        As I understand, this happens when renewables ‘overproduce’ and we need to get rid of the power somehow. People can gladly use as much power as they want in that case. Even if someone fills up batteries for free to later sell back into the grid when production normalizes, that is actually very much what we want. It just adds storage capacity and ensures prices will stay low for longer.

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    2 years ago

    “Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero” sorry, but this is a bunch of bullshit.

  • pathief@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Yet… the electricity bill has tripled since July, as new taxes were introduced to fuck you over. Consumer bills are definitely not dropping and definitely not near zero.