The UK is on track to waste a record amount of wind power in 2024.  The grid can’t cope with the increase in the number of wind farms and blustery weather and so wind farms are being paid to turn off.

“So far this year, the UK has spent more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in ‘congestion costs’ to turn off plants that can’t deliver electricity because of grid constraints, and switch on others,” Bloomberg reports.  A cost that is ultimately borne by consumers.

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The UK has boosted its offshore wind fleet by 50% in the past five years and plans to double it in the next five years, but the grid hasn’t expanded at the same pace, resulting in the operator paying wind farms to turn off.

So far in 2024, the UK has spent over £1 billion in “congestion costs” to turn off wind farms that can’t deliver electricity due to grid constraints and switch on others, with Scotland’s offshore wind farms being particularly affected.

The problem of curtailed generation has become increasingly common, with this year’s congestion costs exceeding last year’s total and second only to 2022 when power prices were almost three times as high.

Major wind farm projects, such as Scotland’s £3 billion Seagreen project and SSE’s Viking development on the Shetland Islands, have been shut off due to grid constraints, highlighting the need for expanded transmission infrastructure to harness Scottish renewables and deliver on the UK’s energy-security targets.

The issue is exacerbated by the UK’s energy system rules. To balance supply and demand in real time and keep the lights on, the operator steps in, paying some plants to turn off and others that are closer to demand centres to fire up.  This often results in the shutdown of far-flung wind farms and the startup of gas-fed plants closer to a city.

The situation puts at risk the UK’s plans to decarbonise the network by 2030 and makes it harder to cut energy bills, with industry experts like Clem Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group, criticising the “outdated rules” of the energy system.

“The outdated rules of our energy system mean vast amounts of cheap green power go to waste,” Cowton said. “It’s absurd that Britain pays Scottish wind farms to turn off when it’s windy, while simultaneously paying gas-power stations in the south to turn on.”

Cowton might like to blame the rules but it seems the mad rush to Net Zero has resulted in bad planning with little to no foresight.  They have put the cart before the horse, or the turbines before the grid.  The truth is, like electric vehicles, wind power is an expensive, environmentally harmful flop and the consumer is paying for both its construction and its failings.  When the climate change crisis scam becomes too big to hide, will the consumer pay for its deconstruction as well? 

We should start having the conversation about the costs of deconstruction and who will bear the brunt because the end is nigh for climate alarmists just as it is for Covidians.  President-elect Donald Trump has made his feelings about the climate change hoax known which has the climate scammers worried.

As The Telegraph noted, “Make no mistake – the looming return of Trump to the White House has just planted a bomb under Labour’s Net Zero obsession. It is now far more politically perilous. For just as Miliband and his carbon emission-fixated ministerial colleagues ratchet up their campaign to achieve ‘clean power’ by 2030, a Trump-led America will be pulling in the opposite direction.”

Further reading:

• Ed Miliband’s “independent” advice on “clean power” scam, The Exposé, 8 November 2024
• Mad Ed’s mob double down on Net Zero lies, The Conservative Woman, 5 December 2024
• UK Pays Wind Farms $1.3 Billion to Shut Down When It’s Windy, Mish Talk, 3 December 2024

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While previously it was a hobby culminating in writing articles for Wikipedia (until things made a drastic and undeniable turn in 2020) and a few books for private consumption, since March 2020 I have become a full-time researcher and writer in reaction to the global takeover that came into full view with the introduction of covid-19. For most of my life, I have tried to raise awareness that a small group of people planned to take over the world for their own benefit. There was no way I was going to sit back quietly and simply let them do it once they made their final move.

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