{"id":375080,"date":"2025-04-15T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375080"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:50:01","slug":"400-million-bill-for-wind-constraint-payments-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375080","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3400 Million Bill For Wind Constraint Payments Last\u00a0Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Philip Bratby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Telegraph:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The <\/em>Czech billionaire buying Royal Mail<\/em><\/a> and energy giant SSE are among the power plant operators being paid millions of pounds when Britain\u2019s wind farms are switched off.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of <\/em>\u00a3400m was spent last year on so-called curtailment<\/em><\/a>, when wind turbines are told to stop generating because the grid is too congested to accept their power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firing up alternative plants \u2013 in many cases gas-fuelled ones \u2013 to replace this electricity elsewhere on the system also costs the taxpayer upwards of \u00a3600m.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some wind farm companies are making tens of millions of pounds from the switch-offs, according to analysis for The Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include SSE, which made an estimated \u00a3138m in 2024, while Moray wind farms owner Ocean Wind made \u00a392m, French state power company EDF took \u00a325m and Scottish Power, which is owned by Spain\u2019s Iberdrola, another \u00a313m.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSE also made an estimated \u00a3179m from providing replacement gas-fired power generation in the same year, while another \u00a392m was made by EP UK, the energy business owned by Daniel Kretinsky, who is buying Royal Mail for \u00a33.6bn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German power giant Uniper also made \u00a3131m, while Vitol Group\u2019s VPI and Intergen received \u00a389m and \u00a388m respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u00a3400 million will be a drop in the ocean compared to what is coming in the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem at the moment is a localised one, where there is too much wind power in Scotland for the connectors to England to cope with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In future however, if wind capacity is tripled as planned, there will be too much wind power for much of the year across the whole of the country, as on windy days it will exceed demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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