Wind Farms Earn £1 Million To Shut Down Over Christmas And New Year Gales: ‘Wind farm operators been paid to turn off their turbines’
'The gales battering Britain have been so strong that many turbines have had to be shut down for safety reasons and the National Grid forced to increase output from gas and coal fired power stations to make up the shortfall...The so-called 'constraint payments', ultimately passed on to household bills, are paid to suppliers at times when the network is unable to absorb excess power being generated'
