Last weekend the Italian cable manufacturing company, Prysmian, released a statement announcing to the markets that the Western Link High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) interconnector between Hunterston and Deeside had failed again, on the 10th of January. This grid link, which is a joint venture between Scottish Power Transmission (SPT) Read more
At the risk of getting boring! More Constraints. + different Video Wind farm fury – £3million a day taxpayers cash spent on NOT generating electricity WIND FARMS were paid as much as £3million per day to not generate electricity last week, after a fault with a major power line Read more
More news on constraints in the Telegraph today as well. Wind farms were paid up to £3 million per day to switch off their turbines and not produce electricity last week, The Telegraph can disclose. Energy firms were handed more than £12 million in compensation following a fault with a Read more
Across Ireland pro-community groups have gone on the offensive, with the same object in mind: getting noise rules which are even vaguely relevant to the task and getting them properly enforced. Paula Byrne, the Ballyroan-based public relations officer with Wind Aware Ireland had labelled the new wind turbine guidelines as “not fit Read more
Wind turbines generate more cash when they’re switched OFF than when they’re working – with customers shouldering nearly £650 million in payments over a decade. So-called ‘constraint payments’, a sort of compensation, have been paid to energy firms in charge of wind farms, when demand for electricity falls or winds Read more
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By Dan Kemp Hull Daily Mail Firefighters have been called out to a “distressed dog” trapped in a wind turbine in East Yorkshire. Six Humberside Fire and Rescue crew members from the Howden team descended on the huge structure in Eastrington after reports of an animal was trapped inside it. Read more
Customers have been forced to pay electricity companies almost £650m over the past decade – not to produce power. The cash is compensation for periods that wind turbines are switched off at short notice and usually happens to avoid overloading the UK’s National Grid. Since 2009, power firms have been Read more