Compensation payments of more than £500 million have been made to wind farms to switch off turbines over the past eight years, the latest figures show.
A new monthly record was set in September this year, when £28,434,560 was paid out by National Grid to stop electricity generation.
Most cash was paid to Scottish wind farms, with some earning more than £1m a month for not supplying power.
Whitelee and its extension on the outskirts of Glasgow, the biggest onshore wind farm in the UK, has received almost a fifth of the entire pot since 2010, with payments totalling more than £96m to date. Meanwhile, the 350MW Clyde scheme, near Abington in South Lanarkshire, has raked in more than £64m and the Griffin, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, nearly £32m. The amount paid out has been rising annually,
https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scottish-wind-farm-paid-96m-to-switch-off-1-4846602
A new monthly record was set in September this year, when £28,434,560 was paid out by National Grid to stop electricity generation.
Most cash was paid to Scottish wind farms, with some earning more than £1m a month for not supplying power.
Whitelee and its extension on the outskirts of Glasgow, the biggest onshore wind farm in the UK, has received almost a fifth of the entire pot since 2010, with payments totalling more than £96m to date. Meanwhile, the 350MW Clyde scheme, near Abington in South Lanarkshire, has raked in more than £64m and the Griffin, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, nearly £32m. The amount paid out has been rising annually,
https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scottish-wind-farm-paid-96m-to-switch-off-1-4846602
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