Norwegian firm Fred Olsen Renewables paid to switch off wind turbines.

Incredible as this may seem, nothing surprises me anymore in this wacky country, a Norwegian company has been paid £1.2 m to shut down their wind farm in the Scottish borders for about 8 hours. This was because of the winds generated by the tail-end of hurricane Katia and would have overloaded the grid system. Incredibly they were paid 10 times more to switch off than they would have received from actually generating electricity.

The Telegraph

It's the future...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-24818276


 

How much will you give me if I switch my lights off?  

I could help you put them out...

If it go's up anymore we will all be switched off .
We need educating on how to save energy, I have 6 outside lights, 4 on all night Why  
4 camera's Why, what am i expecting   3 TV's on at the moment WTF  
Kitchen is like a christmas tree ? No fecker in it  
Students have signed up with the agent for all inclusive energy, Heating on full 24-7, Place lit up like a christmas tree also - WTF, Its all a waste,
Then we complain its too expensive, Turn the kent off then,  

I use no more than i need to, what pisses me off is all we want is cheap energy, not fancy tariffs that we don't understand, or to take a gamble on a long term fixed price, not energy company's spending a fortune on advertising, it's not a life choice to use energy, it's an essential, and to then tax us to be green,,, just provide us with affordability energy you robbing bas#ards...

They were on about energy prices on Question Time a couple of weeks back, was obvious politicians involved were in someone's pocket, no balls to say or do anything about it, one kept on going on about us needing more choice than just the " big six",,, No we don't you twat, we just want cheaper affordable energy...

Those turbines are meant to have an automatic shut off point when the wind speed is too great ( at least over here). Love to see how much the repair bill would be had they left them running in the middle of a storm.

Yip, great invention, do feck all if there's no wind, and the same if there's to much,,, Buy a wind turbine and get a neculear power station free, well your gonna need it some time...
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Says it all...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24844182


 

Hamster in a wheel would be more efficient... 

It's the future...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-25800448

The Solar and wind farms at Arico here are amazing. What gets me is, greatest force of all is never used, the sea. All those friggin waves, must be able to generate from them. Why also do we need competition, nationalise the industry, again but have an Independant regulator. Like Adam says, price drop immediately as millions saved in advertising.

i thought it was a daft place a long time ago ...even before i found out that all the british street lights are owned by the republic of france ???

Adam Mint wrote:It's the future...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-25800448

1.9 Gw of energy my arse. How much will they lose on transporting the power to areas of large populations.

TVTenerife wrote:i thought it was a daft place a long time ago ...even before i found out that all the british street lights are owned by the republic of france ???

You'll have to explain that one to me TV.

Past a wind farm today down the A1 somewhere, All stood still    EU grants maybe   

They shut down in high winds ( and no wind obviously     )

Shame this realy, losing a natural remorse, still say tidals the way to go, when the tides stop running I suspect we will have bigger issues to worry about...

Extract from an article on Albania:-

"Albania and Croatia have discussed the possibility of jointly building a nuclear power plant at Lake Shkoder, close to the border with Montenegro, a plan that has gathered criticism from Montenegro due to seismicity in the area. In addition, there is some doubt whether Albania would be able to finance a project of such a scale with a total national budget of less than $5 billion.However, in February 2009 Italian company Enel announced plans to build an 800 MW coal-fired power plant in Albania, to diversify electricity sources. Nearly 100% of the electricity is generated by ageing hydroelectric power plants, which are becoming more ineffective due to increasing droughts."

It's pissed down for the last 3 years up here!

Only three,,, won't trust a word that man ever says again...

Ain't stupid these Scandinavians are they:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31137556

Why's it got to go all  the way to Sweden at great cost for them to get the good of it, why can't we do it in this country, it is a renewable energy innit, well we ain't stopping producing it are we...