Solar turns wholesale price of energy in California negative

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Last winter and early spring’s dependence on solar drove wholesale energy prices to negative prices, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Jeremy Leggett is a fellow in solar energy at Oxford University's environmental change Unit and chief executive of Solar Century. (Photo: Solar panels used to generate power outside an office building in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)