Huge payout a breeze for wind farms
SIX wind farms in Scotland were paid £890,000 for nothing over a few hours on two windy days in April, it has been revealed.
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.