Huge payout a breeze for wind farms
They were entitled to compensation because they were offering electricity which the National Grid did not have the capacity to take in and sell, because of a transmission fault. And the compensation amounted to many times the value of the lost power.
The incident was revealed yesterday in an open letter to government from a company working on hydrogen gas “batteries”, ITM Power, which says the country needs a system of power storage to make the best of the wind farm boom.