poor electricity transport infrastructure Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 02 May 2011 15:07:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 $1.5 Million Paid to UK Wind Power Companies for Extra Electricity They Haven't Delivered https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-wind-power-excess-companies-paid-20110502/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-wind-power-excess-companies-paid-20110502/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 15:07:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18364 Usually, one man's garbage is another man's gold, as they say. The rule does not always stand up when the latter pays 20 times more than he should, and there's so much of it that it can't be carried from one to another. That's the case with some Scottish wind farms that just provided too much energy and had to be disconnected recently, but the wind power companies had to be paid anyway.

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