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The Morning Edition

The grid is full. Now what?

Mara Ellison explains why Europe is paying solar farms to switch off while factories wait years for power.

24 min

Show notes

Mara Ellison joins Clara Lindqvist to talk about grid queues, negative prices and the unglamorous fixes that would help most.

  • Why prices fell below zero in May

  • What a grid connection queue is

  • Three reforms that would speed things up

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