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Solar's rise giving traders a 'devil horns' problem
Published Thu, Apr 26, 2018 · 09:50 PM
London
EUROPE'S power traders have a colourful name for the way the rise of solar power is distorting the electricity industry: devil horns.
That's the shape formed by intraday power prices that increasingly have to adapt to greater flows from solar farms in the middle of the day. As photovoltaics feed more supplies to the grid, power prices crash and then rise as the sun sets, leaving a distinctive formation in charts.
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