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On Christmas Eve and early into the next day, Germany’s power trading exchange, EPEX Spot, had to pay companies and other large energy consumers up to $60 per megawatt-hour to use energy.

The company bills consumers negative rates when too much power is generated from renewables and there’s a low demand for it.

In general, experts say, solar and wind generation is wildly inconsistent, with a lot of it based on the season.

The online publication, Green Matters, reports that, for example, Germany expects wind turbines to produce around 12 percent of overall power, but that the number can significantly rise if there’s major winds.

“With more capacity being added all the time, it can supply far more energy than anticipated,” the medium says.

It adds that Germany alone has spent over $200bn on the renewable industry in the last 20 years; and since fossil fuel can’t shut down and restart easily, it’s better for the exchange to pay consumers (t0 use the excess energy being produced).

The power generation has been so high now that, for over 100 times in 2017 alone, the company had had to send zero bills to consumers just to encourage them to use electricity!

“The situation is more frequent than other European countries have seen.

“We now have technology that cannot produce according to the demand, but is producing according to the weather,” Tobias Kurth, managing director of Energy Brainpool, said.

“(This is one) of the key challenges in the whole transition of the energy market to renewable power,” Green Matters reports.

In related instance, the American State of California had invested heavily in solar power. Now, there’s so much that other states are sometimes paid to take it.

According to LA Times, last March, for 14 straight days, Arizona utilities got a gift of free solar power from California.

California produced so much solar power on those days that it paid Arizona to take excess electricity its residents weren’t using to avoid overloading its own power lines.

“It happened on eight days in January and nine in February as well.

“All told, those transactions helped save Arizona electricity customers millions of dollars in 2017, though grid operators declined to say exactly how much.

“And California also had paid other states to take power,” LA Times says.

The number of days that California dumped its unused solar electricity would have been even higher if the state hadn’t ordered some solar plants to reduce production — even as natural gas power plants, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, continued generating electricity, the online medium says.

Solar and wind power production was curtailed a relatively small amount — about 3% in the first quarter of 2017 — but that’s more than double the same period last year. And the surge in solar power could push the number even higher in the future.

“The state has achieved dramatic success in increasing renewable energy production in recent years.

“But it also reflects sharp conflicts among major energy players in the state over the best way to weave these new electricity sources into a system still dominated by fossil-fuel-generated power,”
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webincomeplus:
As much as I love MTN, I just noticed that there new data plans get exhausted faster than the previous ones.

same here

same here, dis guys are just zapping data as if dey live on it.

this is massive. love dou.

lovely, so sad post like this don't make front page.

why do you serve God?

Redoil:
No nation will kick or stop any other nation from reaching food sufficiency. Apart from stock fish all our food import are from asia
All these are lies from the pit of apc propaganda machine just to look good in the eyes of the people

Have you been around?

9. If u are visiting please come with your hand fans & your phone batteries charged as d generator is only to be used at my pleasure.

just tell me to come with my ⛽.

Does mr juman lives in Nigeria?

lovely development, i just hope itz been return soonest.

How To Calculate Your Electricity Bill? Simple Calculation.
It is very easy to calculate the electricity bill and tariff for Electrical Engineering Students but, it makes confusion for non-technical people that concern about their electric charges from the electricity service providers.
Below is a simple example and calculation about electricity bill. If you pick this, You will be able to calculate your electricity bill very easily.
Example:
Suppose, a consumer consumes 1000 watts load per hour daily for one month. Calculate The Total Energy bill of the consumer if per unit rate is 9 (In $, £, €, INR ,Rs, DHR, Riyal etc) [Take 1 month = 30 Days].
Solution:
1unit = 1kWh.
So Total kWh = 1000 Watts x 24 Hrs x 30 Days = 720000 watts/hour.
we Want to convert it into Units, Where is 1unit = 1kWh.
So total Consumed units. 720000/1000…… (k=kilo=1000).
Total Units = 720.
Cost of per unit is 9.
So total Cost or Electricity bill= 720 x 9 = 6480. (In $, £, €, INR ,Rs, DHR, Riyal etc). You have Done
Good To Know:
A question is raised that why we multiplied it with 24 although the daily rate is given. Not that It is not Daily Rates, It’s the rate of Per Unit Where 1 unit = 1 kWh (Also Called 1 =B.T.U = Board of Trade Unit).
for instance, If you switched ON a 1000 watt bulb for 1 hour, It mean you consumed 1000 watts for an hour i.e. (1000 watts for 1 hour = 1kWh = 1 unit of Energy). So if the rate of unit is $5 , then you will pay 5 Dollars as a bill for your bulb which consumed 1kWh = 1 unit of electricity.
Isn’t it easy to calculate you electricity bill?… Let me know in the below comment box if you face any problem regard your electricity bill calculation or want to know more about your costume (home, residential or commercial electricity bill.

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the first tym i came across dis i was really didsappointed in our leaders and particularly in the south south leaders.
little wonder we are not progressing. this people curse fit make a nation progress?
Still cant believe jona was president for six years and south south is still as bad as before, even bayelsa inclusive.

we know peole lyk u.

FowlYansh:
The Bring Back Our Girls scam was a well crafted script written by the APC with support from their youth wing, "Boko Haram" to unsettle the sincere Government of Nigeria's greatest Hero: Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

God will punish all those involved in this heartless conspiracy. The truth always wins.



FowlYansh

with prove or shut da fuckup

pedel:
The president should assign some administrators for the bail out to make sure money is spent on paying salaries alone.
Governor Aregbesola cannot be trusted. He is reckless and prodigal. He will start some baloon projects like feeding school children, MKO Airport, Opon Imo, erecting statues, helecopters, builing the world's tallest drums and other projects that costs billions of naira and has no direct impact on the people he governs.
When a man likes to spend more than he can earn or generate it is an indication of thievery tendencies.
Governor Aregbesola is going to waste the money. He is not to be trusted with the money. I have said my own.
By the way I am pro APC but Osun state governor is a bad money manager.

we know people lyk u dat are alway badmouthing d government.

baybeeboi:
this app no fit carry me go my village nau.
Abi e d work without network?
Make una wait make we belleful first as Oyibo talk am

shallow minded modafuka

dis is what I call manifesto

sai buhari