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by mhitza 71 days ago
1. They could export the surplus. No?

2. Isn't cheaper electricity a good thing for the manufacturing industry?

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> 1. They could export the surplus. No?

Yes, and that is in fact done. However, there it is still a bad deal with negative electricity prices.

> Isn't cheaper electeicity a good thing for the manufacuring industry?

It technically is, but its not as simple as that. Industrial manufacturing is a relatively steady load, which means the consumption is constant. The lowest prices do not matter all that much, the average price does. And that average price is relatively high here, even for industrial consumers.

The negative price is an indication that consumers can't utilize all the energy. That is, no one is willing to pay to consume more.

    > "They could export the surplus"
Negative prices generally indicate that the transmission connections are already saturated: as much energy as possible (or financially/technically acceptable to the third parties) is already being exported.

Transmission capacity and interconnectors are usually the bottlenecks.