By Paul Homewood
One common defence of the obscene amounts paid to wind farms to cut output is that these constraint payments are made to all types of generators.
This is grossly misleading. As the REF show, constraint payments for wind farms have risen from virtually nothing a decade ago to £124 million last year, purely because of the intermittency of wind and solar power.
https://www.ref.org.uk/constraints/indextotals.php
Of last year’s £124 million, £115 million alone went to Scottish wind farms, according to the REF, because of the lack of enough transmission capacity to take surplus wind power into England, where the demand is.
With offshore wind capacity now just beginning to rapidly expand in England, we can expect these payments to drastically rise. According to the Telegraph:
Ben Guest, a specialist in renewable energy companies and markets at asset management firm Gresham House, said compensation could even rise to…
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