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Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

By Michael Le Page

16 May 2016

City rooftops showing solar panels

Too much of a good thing

Rolf Schulten/Bloomberg via Getty Images

“Germany had so much renewable energy on Sunday that it had to pay people to use electricity.” That was the on the Quartz news site last week. Excess electricity can overload a grid, so to even things out some big consumers were .

Wind and solar provided . That isn’t typical but it’s not the only place with too much energy at times. In Texas there is now so much wind energy…

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