Wind turbines are seen on Ince Salt Marshes near chemical and manufacturing plants on the River Mersey estuary on Nov. 7, 2016, in Runcorn, England.

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Europe's windy conditions this week created a surplus of renewable energy, officials said.The energy-generating winds were produced from a fairly strong low-pressure system.Around 2 percent of Europe's total energy supply was being provided by offshore wind.

The wind has been fierce in Europe over the past several days. So fierce, in fact, that it has generated record-breaking energy surpluses that even caused wholesale market prices todip into the negative.

According toBBC.com, the United Kingdom is home to the world's largest wind farm with the largestturbines and for the first timein history, on Wednesday. It also brought the market price of electricity into the negative when the surplus of energy caused producers toflood the marketplace.

"Negative prices ," Joël Meggelaars, who works at renewable energy trade body WindEurope, told Motherboard. "It means a high supply and low demand."

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In Denmark, thesupply of wind energy exceeded local demand by as much as 137 percent overnight, when demand was lower.

The excess supply can be a good thing for countries. In Denmark's case, it was able to sell surplus energy to the Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

The energy-generating winds were produced from a fairly strong low-pressure system thatmoved across Ireland, the U.K. and into southwestern Scandinavia early this week, said weather.com meteorologist.

"Winds exceeding 25 mph occurred in much of the U.K. on Tuesday and lingered into Thursday," he said. "Winds over the water in the North Sea and theEnglish Channel were even higher. Another weaker storm system will graze northwestern Europe over the weekend."

During the height of Tuesday's high-wind episode, about 2 percent of Europe's total energy supply was being provided by offshore wind.

"That's a very high level," Meggelaars said.

Renewables have been in the spotlight lately, particularly after news this week that they supplied a record 161 gigawatts of electricity worldwide in 2016atthan it would have been in 2015.

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