"Overall, windfarms and hydropower plants with about 9 gigawatts of capacity were paid to not generate on Wednesday..enough to power more than 8m typical households.
Instead, the grid operator was forced to pay for a string of gas and biomass plants to fire up and bought more electricity imports from Europe via high-voltage subsea power cables."
A ludicrous situation.
NB. The National Grid was privatised in 1990 by Thatcher.
#Energy #NationalGrid #Renewables
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/15/cost-of-balancing-great-britain-power-grid-50m-daily
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