Wind farms handed £5 million to switch off turbines as thousands of homes left withou

[westwall]

I wonder how they justified that to the ratepayers....




Wind farm companies were paid almost £5 million to switch off their turbines while storms lashed the UK over the festive period and tens of thousands of homes were left without power, according to figures published today.


The ‘constraint payments’, which ultimately come from household bills, were payable when the National Grid was unable to cope with the extra power produced during the recent bout of stormy weather or usage was low.


"More than £4.8 million has been paid out to wind farm companies since December 15, according to figures compiled from official data, almost as much as was handed over in the whole of 2012.


The total included more than £1.2 million during the first of the recent storms, on December 19, followed by nearly £800,000 on Christmas Eve, more than £400,000 on Christmas Day and nearly £300,000 last Friday.


The money was paid to switch off turbines over a period when winds of up to 100mph hit Britain, with the storms leading to a spate of deaths, travel chaos for millions of people trying to get home for Christmas and power cuts for thousands of homes."



Wind farms handed £5 million to switch off turbines as thousands of homes left without power - Telegraph

 

[Old Rocks]

When we miss a deadline on delivery of steel, we pay a severe penelty. The utility had a contract with the people that own the mills. Apparently bad weather was not in the contract. Therefore they had to pay. Just the way it is with contracts.

 

[westwall]

When we miss a deadline on delivery of steel, we pay a severe penelty. The utility had a contract with the people that own the mills. Apparently bad weather was not in the contract. Therefore they had to pay. Just the way it is with contracts.

The tens of thousands who were left without power during one of the worst cold snaps in living memory are no doubt heartened by your response...

 

[elektra]

Seems the only thing "Green" about "Green Energy" is the hundreds of billions of dollars you throw at the Wind Turbines.

 

[flacaltenn]

When Comcast underdesigns their digital TV service for a Friday night volume of movie downloads, nobody dies.. And nobody gets billed for the non-delivery of services.

But when you WILLINGLY contract for lifeline power that YOU KNOW can't be guaranteed, it might be considered manslaughter.. It's certainly not best practices engineering. I'd be damned if I'd do business with a company that stupid (or that constrained by govt edicts).. But then again, the folks in Britain dont have a lot of choice about being BILLED for their misery...

They need to get rid of the training wheels for these toy generators and see what their "investments" have delivered for them.. Fuck Big Wind and the guarantees and subsidies and rewards for non-performance.