{"id":398928,"date":"2025-08-30T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398928"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:16:23","slug":"dorenell-highlights-everything-that-is-wrong-with-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398928","title":{"rendered":"Dorenell Highlights Everything That Is Wrong With Wind\u00a0Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

h\/t Joe Public<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scottish First Minister, <\/em>John Swinney<\/em><\/a>, has criticised Labour for the latest energy price cap increase, arguing that \u201cScotland could deliver a different path by capitalising on low-cost renewable resources to bring down bills.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Dorenell Wind Farm in picturesque Morayshire exposes the vacuity of his rhetoric.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorenell is currently paid \u00a3116.70\/MWh through its CfD. But that is not the whole story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/05628395\/filing-history<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dorenell\u2019s Annual Accounts have just been published for last year; they show that only half of their annual output was actually exported to the grid and sold. The other half was curtailed, paid for with constraint payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total revenue equalled \u00a367.57 million, which works out at \u00a3114.30\/MWh \u2013 the strike price last was actually less, \u00a3113.47\/MWh, meaning the curtailment payments were even more profitable than the CfD!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, this all means that the cost of the electricity exported to the grid was \u00a3227.40\/MWh, three times the market price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately for John Swinney\u2019s Scotland, it is Great Britain as a whole which has to pay for this obscene waste of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/05628395\/filing-history<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dorenell incidentally is fully owned by EDF, the French state-owned company, who I am sure will be grateful for this munificence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The story of Dorenell Wind Farm in picturesque Morayshire exposes the vacuity of his rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":398934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818345,691837629,691818656,691837542,691837630,691818852],"class_list":{"0":"post-398928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cfd","9":"tag-dorenell","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-gdp-market-prices","12":"tag-grid-and-sold","13":"tag-wind-power","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-23.-Juni-2025-17_02_24.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1FMk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":389969,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389969","url_meta":{"origin":398928,"position":0},"title":"The truth about Britain\u2019s taxpayer cash-soaked wind farm industry\u2013Daily Mail","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/07\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Daily Mail has an interesting insight into the riches we to wind farms at the expense of billpayers:","rel":"","context":"In \"Cabrach and Glenfiddich Estates\"","block_context":{"text":"Cabrach and Glenfiddich Estates","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=cabrach-and-glenfiddich-estates"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG3-48-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG3-48-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG3-48-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/OIG3-48-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":312710,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=312710","url_meta":{"origin":398928,"position":1},"title":"Wind farms investigated after \u2018overcharging customers by \u00a3100m\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/03\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Wind farm owners are being investigated by the energy watchdog for alleged market manipulation after they were accused of overcharging consumers by \u00a3100m.","rel":"","context":"In \"investigation\"","block_context":{"text":"investigation","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=investigation"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0wind-farm.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0wind-farm.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0wind-farm.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0wind-farm.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0wind-farm.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":264997,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264997","url_meta":{"origin":398928,"position":2},"title":"American and Canadian Prairies Suffer Calm Weather Wind Power\u00a0Wipe-Out","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s a reason that windmills were abandoned in the 19th\u00a0century: it\u2019s called \u201cthe wind\u201d. 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