By SAM GREENHILL and GRAHAM GRANT
Wind farm operators were paid £34million last year to switch the turbines off in gales.
Two days last week saw householders effectively hand £400,000 to energy firms for doing nothing.
The arrangement compensates wind farms for the National Grid’s inability to cope with the extra energy produced during high winds.
1 comment:
Payments made to wind companies to shut down so they can balance the grid sounds odd. I thought in New York the opposite was true, if too much power was produced the grid operator charged a wind farm for producing more than was needed. This seems a better approach to garner cooperation from wind farm operators.
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