Monday, January 13, 2014
"Energy firms cash in on storms by leaving wind turbines idle as some power companies boost takings by a THIRD"
Here's another wind farm story that should give us pause if we're willing to learn from the U.K. experience...
Sam Greenhill and Rebecca Evans and Tim Shipman combined to tell this story in a recent U.K. Daily Mail article:
"Energy firms reaped huge profits from their wind farms during the recent storms while families suffered Christmas blackouts.
Some power companies boosted their takings by nearly a third. The figure for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day alone – at the height of the crisis – was £1.2million.
This is because wind farms are paid to shut down their turbines during gusty weather – and they are paid even more to close them down than they are to run them normally."
