how much has the government wasted turning off wind farms this week?

your guess for this week so far · £1,000 a tap, hold to move faster

live grid data from Elexon, the official record of Britain's electricity market.

WASTED SO FAR THIS YEAR
£
≈ £48every second
≈ £2,850every minute
≈ £171,000every hour

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we pay wind farms to switch off because our grid is so weak.

Wind farms can make more electricity than our creaking grid can carry. So we just… don't use it.

We pay the turbines to stop spinning — "constraint payments," they call it. You pay for this.

Electricity — dumped in the bin. Not because we ran out of power. Because our planning system doesn't allow us to build the infrastructure we desperately need.

And it lands on your energy bill. Right now. Climbing every second you've been on this page.

this is fixable. build the grid.

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