Comment on constraint stories in today’s press* and due in tomorrow’s where it will be revealed that Fallago Rig has received constraint payments of £3 million since April.
“The massive constraint payments Scottish wind farms receive are the result of a skewed planning system which allows wind farms to be built before the infrastructure is in place to take all the energy they produce. Planning is devolved and the Scottish Government is grabbing all the UK wind subsidy it can by seeing as many turbines built in Scotland as possible.
Constraint payments don’t come out of the Scottish Government’s budget but out of the household budget of every single electricity consumer in the UK. Wind development in Scotland is out of control, wind speculators are mopping up millions in subsidies and we’re all paying for electricity we can’t even use.”
Linda Holt, spokesperson for Scotland Against Spin
*http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/440829/Cashing-in-on-our-misery-Britons-forked-out-1m-to-energy-firms-during-megastorm
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