Hello! What country you are in, what was going on?

@jhutar Emile lives in the Netherlands. I'm just a messenger. During sunny days, there's just too much electricity in the grid.

@jhutar if there would be just too much electricity, couldn't the grid disconnect the solar plants instead of paying? It seems to me the cause lies within some government incentive that makes disconnecting renewable sources expensive. And it takes longer to regulate a thermal power plant.

@krab @jhutar with small plants like those on peoples' houses, I don't think it's technically possible to turn them off without turning off the whole street. I guess producers pay fines for delivering too much electricity into the grid and these fines are used to pay the consumers who consume the excessive power.

@jhutar that's right but I assume it would be enough to shut down the big ones. Actually that's what happened during Easter in CZ. The grid had to pay compensation for disconnecting them.