Cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reaches nearly £50m a day
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Grid operator is paying huge sums to switch off windfarms in areas of excess electricity generation while turning on gas plants elsewhere The cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid has soared to near-record highs of almost £50m a day after windfarms were turned off due to bottlenecks in transmitting power around the country. The grid operator paid £47.9m on Wednesday to turn windfarms off in areas with an over…
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- Cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reaches nearly £50m a dayThe Guardian World