£400 Million Bill For Wind Constraint Payments Last Year

[rangerrebew]

£400 Million Bill For Wind Constraint Payments Last Year
April 14, 2025
 
By Paul Homewood
 
The Czech billionaire buying Royal Mail and energy giant SSE are among the power plant operators being paid millions of pounds when Britain’s wind farms are switched off.

A total of £400m was spent last year on so-called curtailment, when wind turbines are told to stop generating because the grid is too congested to accept their power.


Firing up alternative plants – in many cases gas-fuelled ones – to replace this electricity elsewhere on the system also costs the taxpayer upwards of £600m.

Some wind farm companies are making tens of millions of pounds from the switch-offs, according to analysis for The Telegraph.

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[Kamaji]

What a scam.

[catfish1957]

The unhidden costs worldwide, will be when these so called entrepreneurs walk away from these rust buckets, and the cost of removal, remediation, and disposal exceeds the costs of the property it sits on.

That will be the moment, people really realize how big a dupe this has been all along.   And just who will (government?) step up.  These will be the superfund sites of the 2080's.