Wind turbine owners are getting money for nothing
Story by Matthew Lynn • 2h
We could have rebuilt a couple of hospitals. Or bought 45 new Challenger tanks. Or restored the winter fuel allowance to 800,000 of the neediest pensioners.
Even allowing for inflation, there are still lots of things you could do with £250m. Instead, as The Telegraph revealed on Monday, over the first two months of this year we spent it on paying wind farms to switch off their turbines.
That is crazy.
We are spending vast sums of money we don’t have on a power system that has become completely dysfunctional and which has landed us with electricity that is cripplingly expensive. We need to start fixing that before the country is bankrupted and our industry wiped out.
In principle, generating electricity from wind should be a perfect solution, especially for a country such as the UK where, if we are being honest, it can be a little blustery at times. It doesn’t involve any carbon emissions, it will never run out and it can be generated domestically.
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