Spain Has So Much Solar Power That It Is Worth Nothing at Noon
Wholesale electricity prices fell to zero or below for a record 1,300 hours this year. Cheap power is a windfall for factories and a headache for the developers who built the panels.

Wholesale electricity prices fell to zero or below for a record 1,300 hours this year. Cheap power is a windfall for factories and a headache for the developers who built the panels.

A hiring boom in tourism, construction, and services brought unemployment to 9.8 percent, a level the country has not seen since before the financial crisis. Nearly half the new jobs went to immigrants.
