January 11, 2019

Stuart Gillespie Three Stewartry windfarm operators were paid nearly £2 million last year to turn off turbines. And they’ve been handed more than £3 million between them in constraint payments over the past five years. Renewable Energy Foundation figures reveal the cash was paid to the operators of Robin Rigg, Read more…

The UK Government has hit back at union claims that British bill payers are footing the bill for idle turbines. The GMB union called for an end to what it called the “scandal” of energy bill payers stumping up more than £100 million to subsidise idle windfarms. GMB said a Read more…