Wind power in the United Kingdom Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Wind Energy Cost Will Beat Gas in 5 Years, Report Says https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-cost-gas/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-cost-gas/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:12:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55869 Offshore wind is expected to become cost-competitive with gas by 2020. According to a new report, innovations in wind energy technology as well as increased manufacturing of the new technology and governmental policy have together made the costs associated with wind energy drop. The report was published by BVG Associates and commissioned by Statkraft UK. Statkraft […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-cost-gas/feed/ 0 55869 $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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