Last week, millions of pounds in “constraint payments” were paid to wind energy farms to not run their turbines.
Over £12 million was handed out to wind farms in the United Kingdom last week, following a major outage in a powerline that transported energy from Scottish wind farms to England. The handouts will be tacked onto consumers’ energy bills throughout the country.
The firms were paid between 25 and 80 per cent more than they would have earned were the turbines actually running, reports The Telegraph.
A study conducted in December by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) found that the UK handed out a record high £136 million to 86 wind farm owners last year in “constraint payments” when the grid was incapable of handling the energy flow.
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4 comments:
It is a fact that when the wind farms generally produce the most power is also when the grid least needs it.
It is also a fact the companies who build these things are friends and relatives of Senators and Representatives, both at the federal and at the state level.
Build them for hundreds of millions in profit and THEN rape the taxpayers for NOT running them.
Sounds like the damn Mafia.
Keep cheering.
PLEASE START THE HANGING.
January 20, 2020 at 11:51 AM;
What? You claim "fact." Why don't you say where you got that "fact?" The wind blows almost ALL the time. The grid needs power when it is hot (summer) and cold (winter). You know nothing, and yet claim to know a "fact." Ridiculous!
January 20, 2020 at 9:52 PM:
I see you digress. Reading skills are not your strong point. The post is about the UK (United Kingdom), not the US. There's no mafia in the UK. Relax. Read, then comment before you look like a fool.
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