UK Wind Power “Racket” Exposed: Octopus Energy Reveals £650m Wasted on Idle Turbines – Is Our Grid Broken?
Octopus’s campaign has thrust the curtailment problem into the spotlight. Greg Jackson bluntly told The Independent that wind farm owners (some of whom also run gas plants) “realise there is a bunch of generators…that won’t get to market because of grid congestion, so they pay them anyway, and then they find someone else to fill the gaps” the-independent.com. In other words, billpayers fund idle wind farms and pricey backup power – a situation Jackson labels “a racket” the-independent.com the-independent.com. He illustrated it like “building a factory where there [are] no roads and then being paid for what you might have