Scottish Consumers Pay Billion Dollars for Wind Energy They Can't Use | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    In an arrangement that is common in wind energy contracts around the world, during periods of low demand and high wind production, consumers have to pay for the electricity that wind farms generate or could generate but cannot be used. Since these contracts started ten years ago in Scotland, that has amounted to over 650 million pounds (over a billion US dollars) for electricity they could not use but the cost of it was added to their electric bills. That represents enough electricity to power 90% of the entire country for a year.

    https://stopthesethings.com/2020/07/14/worlds-biggest-scams-scotlands-wind-farms-paid-650000000-to-not-produce-power/

    At other times of the year, there is high demand but the wind is either not blowing hard enough or blowing too hard, so power is needed but wind farms cannot provide it. Extra energy has to be bought on the open market at a much higher cost, and it is the consumer who suffers from that, too.

    Green energy is a very bad deal for consumers.