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It's still not earning you money to spend electricity because you still have to pay the transfer fee which is around 6 cents / kWh but it's pretty damn cheap nevertheless, mostly because of the excess in wind energy.

Last winter because of a mistake it dropped down to negative 50 cents / kWh for few hours, averaging negative 20 cents for the entire day. People were literally earning money by spending electricity. Some were running electric heaters outside in the middle of the winter.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I live in Finland. Can confirm we have solar energy. It's extremely useful considering that in the summer we have near 24 hours of sunlight.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And in winter reverse. How much do you get from solar during the summer season ( north region or close to polar circle) ?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

By not putting the solar farms in Rovaniemi?

They're in Uusimaa region, which still gets some sunlight in winter. Either way, they produce massive amounts of energy in the Summer, and in the winter we use the nuclear reactors more.