Sky: Britons paying hundreds of millions to turn off wind turbines as network can't handle the power

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Britons paying hundreds of millions to turn off wind turbines as network can't handle the power they make on the windiest days

The cables that transfer the power from the north to the south can't safely deal with the amount of power the turbines generate on some days. The National Grid paid £215m to get them shut off last year - a cost that eventually ends up on people's bills.

Sky News | Hannah Thomas-Peter | Tuesday 28 February 2023

UK consumers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds to turn wind turbines off because the grid cannot deal with how much electricity they make on the windiest days.

The energy regulator Ofgem has told Sky News it is because the grid is "not yet fit for purpose" as the country transitions to a clean power system by 2035.

The National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), which is responsible for keeping the lights on, has forecast that these "constraint costs", as they are known, may rise to as much as £2.5bn per year by the middle of this decade before the necessary upgrades are made.

The problem has arisen as more and more wind capacity is built in Scotland and in the North Sea but much of the demand for electricity continues to come from more densely populated areas in the south of the country...more
https://news.sky.com/story/britons-paying-hundreds-of-millions-to-turn-off-wind-turbines-as-network-cant-handle-the-power-they-make-on-the-windiest-days-12822156

If only someone had an idea of how to store excess renewable energy...

A Kilogram of hydrogen, properly stored, will be exactly the same after 10, 1000 or 100,000 years. A battery that is not charging is constantly dis-charging. Then it dies and has to be replaced.

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https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2023/unique-study-birds-avoid-wind-turbine-blades

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1. But, but.......

tRUMP said that millions of birds were being killed by windmills, not to mention the cancer that they cause….

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2. Reposted for posterity

and those that missed it

It is UNBELIEVABLE that this cretin may actually subject the citizens of the US to another run for office.

This alone should have disqualified the bastard after he uttered these lies. But it won't.