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”…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”