why can’t a power plant “dump” extra unused electricity?

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Some countries produce too much electricity at a certain period of the year, and have to pay another country to get rid of their extra own unconsumed electricity. Why can’t a power plant produce more electricity than consumed, what’s the physical obstacle to do so?

Also, what will the receiving country do if this surplus of electricity is again not consumed entirely?

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I think a lot of you are missing question. Why can’t you just dump excess electricity into the ground? Isn’t that what happens with downed power lines? Why spend money when you could just build in a grounding energy dump feature?

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