Solar farming

[nzoomed]

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

https://fortune.com/2024/06/16/electrici...-turbines/

Sounds like the same situation as reported in Germany is the earlier posted link. This one is paywalled so can't see the details.

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If only that was the case here! Might happen someday when enough homes get solar installed.

Grid oversupply is also an issue in Australia due to their >30% of houses having solar operating. They're looking at storage systems, both domestic and utility scale, to derive better use of all that generation.

The French and German cases are likely solvable with more storage to buffer supply demand mismatches. Growing pains as countries increasingly move toward widespread adoption of renewable power generation.

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And going back to my OP this interview on Kathryn Ryan's Radio NZ show today makes for interesting listening.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme...ts-consent

Yeah, given enough time, most of these issues will be addressed, growing pains as you say when our grid was never designed for this.
Might even be that we see small battery banks installed on most street corners.

Farming around solar panels is a good option, looks like the northland site will still be able to graze stock around them and they provide shade for the animals.

The solar farm China is building in the Gobi desert looks like its changing the microclimate and allowing  vegetables to be grown around them such as tomatoes.

Will be very interesting to see what the next few years bring.