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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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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We haven't got many geographical sites that support pumped storage. They got surveyed back in the 50 and 60s and the ones that were suitable got built.