£1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm http://www.energy-broker.co.uk/1-5-million-paid-to-shut-down-new-scottish-wind-farm/

EDF Energy was handed £1.45 million between April 29 and May 15 to shut down turbines on the Fallago Rig wind farm, which is on land owned by the Duke of Roxburghe in Scottish Borders.

The “constraint payments”, which ultimately come from electricity bills, are given to wind farm companies to compensate them for not producing power during periods of high generation and low demand.

This can happen when it is too windy, in order not to overload the National Grid, or when maintenance work on the Grid is being carried out.

But the 48-turbine development in the Lammermuir Hills only completed testing and came fully online on May 17, two days after the final tranche of the money.

The Conservatives said the payments for not producing electricity – which spiked at more than £320,000 per day – demonstrated the ludicrous consequences for consumers of Alex Salmond’s drive for wind energy in Scotland.

via £1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm – Telegraph.

£1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm