The Green Absurdity: When Electricity Becomes a Punishment

Once upon a time, the Netherlands was a model of “smart energy.”
A green tariff of €0.06 per kilowatt-hour encouraged citizens to install solar panels, invest in the future, and join the movement toward energy independence. You produced clean power — the state rewarded you.

But now the logic has flipped upside down: the tariff has become negative — –€0.06 per kWh. In other words, citizens not only give away their electricity for free, but actually have to pay for doing so.

This isn’t just an economic paradox. It’s the anti-utopia of the green transition, where initiative and trust are punished instead of supported.

When Solar Energy Becomes “Too Much”

The problem isn’t with the technology — it’s with the policy.
Europe embraced the “green transition” but forgot about balance and storage. In the Netherlands, so many solar panels have been installed that on sunny days the grid simply cannot absorb the surplus energy.

Instead of investing in storage systems or smart distribution, energy companies just push the tariff below zero — forcing people to cut back on production.
So the more clean energy you generate, the more you get fined for it.

 The Bureaucratic Mirror of Energy Madness

It’s like going to work, doing your job well — and then paying your employer for the privilege.
This “punishment economy” destroys public trust.
Tens of thousands of Dutch citizens who invested in solar panels now feel betrayed. It’s what happens when energy planning turns into ideology instead of engineering.

Export, Don’t Punish

Rather than penalizing its own citizens, the Netherlands should think strategically.
A surplus of renewable energy is not a curse — if you know where to send it. Why not export it to Germany, which shut down its nuclear plants and now buys electricity from Poland and France?
But instead of solutions, bureaucracy took the easy route: blame the consumer and tell people to stop producing light.

A Green Transition Without Brains

The sun is free, but bureaucratic incompetence costs billions.
When governments can’t keep up with their own reforms, “green energy” becomes not a symbol of progress but a victim of its own stupidity.
Europe doesn’t need more slogans about “sustainability.” It needs smart engineering and sober logic.
Because green energy without infrastructure is nothing but a solar utopia running in reverse.