Household bills are projected to increase because of the UK’S obligation to pay windfarms to stop overloading an already at capacity grid has reached the highest level on record.
Scotland Against Spin (SAS), a campaign group opposing wind energy policy, said: “Scottish consumers are paying through the nose for electricity because of the crazed rush to substantially ‘decarbonise’ the grid by 2030, and rural communities are being damaged by renewables developments which are adding to their electricity bills.
“This is to add insult to injury and is no way to run a 21st century economy’s energy needs.”
Frank Hay, of Sustainable Shetland, a campaign group set up to promote social, environmental and economic sustainability on the islands, said: “As we look at the Viking turbines standing idle in what should be optimal conditions for wind energy the nonsense of constructing windfarms without ensuring that the energy produced can be utilised is painfully obvious.
“It has led to a scandalous waste of money for constraint payments.”
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