Blot on the landscape

[Castle Farm]

Wind farm FARCE! Government paid energy firms more than £136million to turn their green turbines OFF last year because they were providing TOO MUCH electricity for grid to handle

• Money handed over after a fault was discovered in the Western Link power line
• Wind farms were shut down with government paying millions in compensations
• In total, energy firms were given more than £12 million to turn off their turbines

 

[Sharpy]

Wind farm FARCE! Government paid energy firms more than £136million to turn their green turbines OFF last year because they were providing TOO MUCH electricity for grid to handle

• Money handed over after a fault was discovered in the Western Link power line
• Wind farms were shut down with government paying millions in compensations
• In total, energy firms were given more than £12 million to turn off their turbines

You mean they got compensated for not being able to supply their customers through no fault of their own after following government policy? And?

 

[Goweresque]

There's no need to shout!

More to the point, its not 'the government' who is paying anyone, all this money comes directly from consumers, ie everyone, via their energy bills.

 

[deleted user 837354]

All this because Tony Blair wasn't brave enough to form an actual energy policy.

 

[matthew]

There's no need to shout!

More to the point, its not 'the government' who is paying anyone, all this money comes directly from consumers, ie everyone, via their energy bills.

Yes.
And in Germany (to quote just one country) so much overproduction has come from their squads of windmills and miles of solar, offered in short bursts, and not necessarily at times of high demand, that not only do power companies pay over the top for this 'green' power, they have had to pay other countries to take it.
Too much power is overloading the grid.

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[Oldmacdonald]

Are you also so similarly outraged when power stations are paid to limit production @Castle Farm

 

[Bury the Trash]

Tell you what, why dont we use all the fossil fuels up, then worry about it




?

 

[teslacoils]

"Some other farmers got ahead of me in the queue and now we can't get planning for one and they're making money and were not. It's not fair. Wa wa wa."

 

[Tarw Coch]

Thought this was going to be a thread about a 1980’s TV program.