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UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool (www.rechargenews.com)

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Britain wasted £649m already this year powering down wind farms as there is not enough grid capacity to send renewable energy where it is needed, utility finds

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So a private company is shaming the government into building infrastructure in their next funding, in the name of public good and wasted sales - that's fair enough

[–] iamnotme@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

National Grid is a private company

They are funded via OFGEM, and infrastructure building doesn’t happen overnight.

Having a bleeding edge grid would be bad. There is lots of approval and testing that adds to delivery timelines, along with the funding

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

National Grid is a private company

well shut me up...!