General · 11 hours ago
Why Britain paid £47.9m to turn off windfarms
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That's close to a record, and the bill lands on households through their energy costs. The grid operator Neso paid windfarms to stop generating where power was plentiful, and paid gas plants to start up where it was short. The cost of balancing reached a record £505m in September alone, with projections indicating it will hit £3.2bn during the coming year.
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