California environmentalists have discovered that when it comes to renewable energy, you can have too much of a good thing. Thanks to heavily subsidized solar panel installation, the state now has too much power, sending electricity prices negative, but only during the daytime. At night, Californians are out of luck.

As spring arrives and summer approaches, California is once again going to be throwing away solar energy that the state is incapable of storing. In 2022, of the 2.4 million megawatt-hours of electricity that the state wasted, 95% was solar energy. Wasting that electricity causes electricity prices to rise, making for yet another perfect mess of California policy.