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Eurozone Residential Solar Is Crushing Grid Power Prices
Episode 130 of the European Economy Podcast: Why rooftop solar in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands is pushing daytime wholesale electricity prices into negative territory more than 200 days per year. Lucas and Luna explore how the residential solar boom is reshaping wholesale power markets, forcing baseload generators offline, and creating new volatility patterns that battery storage and demand-response firms are racing to exploit. With data on the Merkur Prize and European Energy Exchange, plus a look at how Spanish solar overcapacity drove a 30 percent drop in summer peak prices in 2025…
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