Wind farms were paid £8.7million to switch OFF their turbines last month because they generated too much electricity/Daily Mail

A record £8.7m was paid to turn wind farms off last month
This compares to about £10,000 in March 2013
The so-called ‘constraint payments’ were made by the National Grid because too much electricity was being generated
The Renewable Energy Foundation claims the wind industry is ‘attempting to conceal the scale of this market abuse’
But the National Grid say it is a necessary measure to cope with periods of increased demand

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