[thrwaway9871]

Not Czech but how it works here:

* I choose energy provider x

* Friend has bought a part of those remote solar plants and also connected to provider x

* Friend sells his surplus energy to provider x at low price

* Provider x can now sell the power to:

a) His customers (me), and make next to nothing

b) Sell it to the international grid and make bank, then proceed to buy energy for me at going rates making me foot the whole bill.

Guess what happens, and who gets rich. This is market liberalization at work. You reap what you have sown.

[MonkeyMalarky]

>Friend sells his surplus energy to provider x at low price

Sorry if this is a dumb question but why can't he sell at the going rate for international grid?

[maxerickson]

The grid operator won't make an agreement to move a little bit of power that is advantageous to the small producer.

So in essence, because they can't get it there.

[MonkeyMalarky]

Sounds like they're exploiting their monopoly over the connections that small producers need.

[maxerickson]

Sure, more or less. But there are real costs and financial costs of getting the power to the other market, and they are probably being forced by regulation to buy the power at all (prices won't always be tipped in the one direction).