British bill payers have already forked out a staggering £650 million this year just to pay wind farms not to produce electricity when it’s too windy, according to campaign website Wasted Wind. The National Grid can’t cope, so turbines are told to switch off, leaving the public to pick up the tab. That number is only rising…
In 2024, the cost to switch off turbines totalled £1 billion in so-called “constraint payments”. At this rate, 2025 will blow past that – landing at a projected £1.26 billion. That’s a 26% increase…
According to Renewable Energy Foundation, bill payers have also coughed up £102,500 to solar panel farms to switch off this year when there’s been too much sun. Here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s more bills”…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”