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Wind farms paid £100m to switch power off
submitted 5 years ago by TheWebOfSlime from telegraph.co.uk
[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (0 children)
Why don't they just pump water uphill? It's one of the easiest ways to store energy.
Since that requires more infrastructure, they could instead increase the demand by decreasing the price, like in Germany. Instead, only one supplier is offering this. The National Grid should be paying consumers to use more electricity, not suppliers to supply less.
I put forward the hypothesis that this decision was financially incentivised.
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