{"id":74704,"date":"2017-12-26T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/power-prices-go-negative-in-germany-a-positive-for-energy-users"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:12:01","slug":"power-prices-go-negative-in-germany-a-positive-for-energy-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/power-prices-go-negative-in-germany-a-positive-for-energy-users","title":{"rendered":"Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/power-prices-go-negative-in-germany-a-positive-for-energy-users.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany has spent $200 billion over the past two decades to promote cleaner sources of electricity. That enormous investment is now having an unexpected impact \u2014 consumers are now actually paid to use power on occasion, as was the case over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Power prices plunged below zero for much of Sunday and the early hours of Christmas Day on the EPEX Spot, a large European power trading exchange, the result of low demand, unseasonably warm weather and strong breezes that provided an abundance of wind power on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Such \u201cnegative prices\u201d are not the norm in Germany, but they are far from rare, thanks to the country\u2019s effort to encourage investment in greener forms of power generation. Prices for electricity in Germany have dipped below zero \u2014 meaning customers are being paid to consume power \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.energybrainpool.com\/en\/already-103-times-negative-electricity-prices-at-the-spot-market\/\">more than 100 times<\/a> this year alone, according to EPEX Spot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/25\/business\/energy-environment\/germany-electricity-negative-prices.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/25\/business\/energy-environme...rices.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has spent $200 billion over the past two decades to promote cleaner sources of electricity. That enormous investment is now having an unexpected impact \u2014 consumers are now actually paid to use power on occasion, as was the case over the weekend. Power prices plunged below zero for much of Sunday and the early [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74878,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704\/revisions\/74878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}