Essays by Eric Worrall
First published JoNova; Express claims one billion pounds a year is being paid to UK wind turbine operators, who have been told to disconnect from the grid during periods of low demand, when no one can use their electricity .
UK wastes energy ‘millions a day’ as wind farms are told to shut down while bills soar
Great Britain has squander an estimated £1 billion a year energy because the National Grid’s infrastructure cannot handle the amount of clean electricity currently being produced
Via ANTONY ASHKENAZ
10:01, Sunday, November 6, 2022…
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Andy Willis, CEO of Kona Energy, warned that the UK was spending millions of pounds a day asking wind farms to stop producing electricity.
He says this phenomenon, known as energy constrained billing, means “essentially, there are times of the day when it’s so windy that the electrical infrastructure can’t handle the amount of wind these wind farms are producing.
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In recent years, he said. [the amount spent] has reached around £1 billion a year and that is worth noting given the rather complicated calculation. It’s not just the cost of paying wind farms to turn off, it’s also the cost of paying a gas-powered power station to turn on somewhere.”
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To tackle this crisis, the UK needs to build more large-scale battery storage sites to help harness renewable electricity.nine times cheaper than natural gas at current prices.
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Batteries are extremely expensive, so we are more likely to see a herd of flying pigs than to invest enough in batteries to make a significant difference to renewables.”payment binding” problem.
Have some say that the UK Government will limit payments to green energy suppliers under Prime Minister Liz Truss, although I don’t know if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intends to continue efforts to curb tree excesses. Liz Truss was replaced by Rishi Sunak after only 50 days in office.
The logical thing to do is to stop the expansion of wind and solar energy until a solution is found. But if British politicians had behaved rationally about renewables, this problem would never have arisen in the first place.
I suspect this uncontrolled cash outflow will continue until consumer pain becomes unbearable and Britain is forced to accept. “Spanish Solution” – abrupt termination of the favorable treatment of renewable energy suppliers.
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