They have to export cheap energy because they so often overproduce, but also have to import when they don't. From my Swiss perspective, I am incredibly pissed

They have to export cheap energy because they so often overproduce, but also have to import when they don't. From my Swiss perspective, I am incredibly pissed that our political class in the 90s and early 2000s simply adopted the attitude that 'we can of course always import cheap energy from Germany or France' we don't need to do anything by ourself. Building a single large new nuclear reactor between 90-2010 would have made us a major profitable exporter of energy instead of an importer. And with our large hydro storage we can even store extra baseload produced at night and sell it during peak.