UK Households pay after Highland wind farms earn £68 million for nothing 04/03/2024By Keith Findlay Premium Content New figures also reveal more than £275m was paid to keep Scottish turbines still during 2023.
Renewables/Energy Transition SSEN Transmission calls for timely approval of Peterhead to Yorkshire ‘electric superhighway’ 23/12/2021 By Hamish Penman It has been warned that any delays to plans for an “electric superhighway” between Scotland and England could cost the taxpayer millions of pounds.
Renewables/Energy Transition Government refutes union claims on subsidies to idle windfarms 11/01/2019 By David McPhee The UK Government has hit back at union claims that British bill payers are footing the bill for idle turbines.
Renewables/Energy Transition North-east windfarms get £1m in ‘constraint payments’ 29/10/2018By Stephen Walsh Windfarm operators in the north-east have received £1 million since the start of the year to turn off their turbines in high winds.
Renewables/Energy Transition Exclusive: Scottish onshore wind farms costing millions in constraint payments 22/09/2017By David McPhee Many of Scotland's biggest onshore wind farms are being paid tens of millions of pounds for producing virtually no energy at certain times.