[the8472]

> big problem

I can imagine worse problems.

Certainly, it's economically suboptimal. We do need storage or some other kind of energy consuming business that can absorb energy that's nearly zero-valued on the spot market.

But having so much excess renewable energy that it has to be pushed on other countries - and possibly forces coal plants to throttled back there - is not all bad.

[martinald]

The problem is that when there is so much renewable, the other countries you are pushing it to are very likely to be oversupplied also.

Right now the various grid operators pay huge money to get renewable producers to shut off production. This is not ideal.