"Developers have received payments of £19 million not to generate 215 gigawatt hours - enough electricity to supply 50,000 households for a year"
I have just read this in The Times 26 August.
It would seem that when the wind blows and all the wind turbines go round (as they have been designed to do) the national grid cannot cope with all the electricity produced and the turbines have to be turned off. Compensation then has to be paid to the wind farm owners.
Guess who ultimately pays for that?
Us - through our electricity bills.
It is BONKERS.
Here is what it goes on to say in the paper
" This is equivalent to 3 megawatt wind farms, costing about £90 million to build, standing idle since the beginning of the year.
So
We pay the landowners about £20,000 a year per turbine
and
We pay the wind farm owners to stop them making electricity
Bonkers - scandalous
Until a means has been found of storing the power made by wind, then it is all a complete waste of money.
No - worse than that - it is a huge rip off
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