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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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.

You have an extra 10KW, where does that energy go? A wire isnt a pipe that can just dump electricity out of it, you NEED to convert that energy out into the world somehow or else it will find its own way (overheating etc)

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