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.
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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