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Literal free goddamn energy from the sky and these greedy fucks are going to burn the world down because they can't flip it for a buck
It sounds dumb, but because you can't turn off solar power, if it produces more then you need, you have to use it somehow or it can damage equipment. Hence the driving prices into negative territory. It's a technical problem more than it is a financial one.
It is a financial problem. Technically you can just cover the solar panels. But that's not good financially.
Afaik photovoltaics are fine running open circuit, i.e., disconnecting them. Thermal solar, and wind, are (I think) much trickier (but covering things for solar thermal, like you suggest, is perhaps feasible).