Solar farming

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Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative
Prices have dropped 87 percent — more than a dip.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/germany-so...ric-prices

A similiar situation to us personally in not having storage to balance out our non-generating times. 

Today was partly cloudy but we still generated >26kWh which we mostly used to charge our EV, plus running our home during daylight hours. If we had a home battery, or preferably the ability to draw back down from our EV using V2H, we would have comfortably enough stored to run our home for the night.

In NZ's case we already have a huge buffering capacity to complement solar and wind generation in the form of our hydro dams. Managed responsibly the nation's total hydro dam reserves are sufficient to carry consumption through the intermittence of solar and wind generation, but the problem is a national generation structure that pits the generators against the best economics for their domestic consumers.

The situation will change in consumers' favour in the coming years as domestic solar with home storage capacity tips the scales against the genretailers' monopolistic practices. In the UK Octopus Energy has a customer plan that uses remote control of their customers' consumption to best benefit from the ups and downs of the wholesale electricity price movements with some customers being paid to charge their EVs. Octopus have plans to implement a similar plan in New Zealand but are currently being thwarted by our electricity supply regulatory platform (second half of the following video).

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/why-we-al...dium=video