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https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/electricity-customers-spend-billions-compensating-windfarm-owners-for-turbine-shutdowns?utm_source=app
Electricity customers have spent £2bn compensating windfarm owners who have been ordered to switch off turbines.
The regular shutdowns are essential to avoid overloading the National Grid, which frequently cannot cope with the input from renewable energy projects. STV News revealed in 2021 that electricity customers had been billed £1bn for the so-called “constraint payments” over a period of a decade since their introduction.
The compensation total has since doubled in just three-and-a-half years.
John Constable of the Renewable Energy Foundation, a charity that has long monitored the data, said: “Early action on constraints to contain them would have meant that the scale didn’t become as large as it has – and that public disenchantment wouldn’t have set in.
“The real problem now is that people don’t trust a word coming out of government or industry on these matters and, indeed, I’m afraid, they shouldn’t.
Electricity customers have spent £2bn compensating windfarm owners who have been ordered to switch off turbines.
The regular shutdowns are essential to avoid overloading the National Grid, which frequently cannot cope with the input from renewable energy projects. STV News revealed in 2021 that electricity customers had been billed £1bn for the so-called “constraint payments” over a period of a decade since their introduction.
The compensation total has since doubled in just three-and-a-half years.
John Constable of the Renewable Energy Foundation, a charity that has long monitored the data, said: “Early action on constraints to contain them would have meant that the scale didn’t become as large as it has – and that public disenchantment wouldn’t have set in.
“The real problem now is that people don’t trust a word coming out of government or industry on these matters and, indeed, I’m afraid, they shouldn’t.