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Rooftop solar power is making coal obsolete in Australia

2014-07-09 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BGR: Rooftop solar panels are becoming such a powerful factor in the energy market that they now can push the price of electricity to negative territory in the sunniest regions of the world. This is possible because powering down fossil fuel energy generators during peak solar power periods would be more expensive than paying customers to use the electricity. The negative energy price barrier was breached in Queensland, Australia, where low demand and high rooftop solar power generation pushed the...

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