How to solve Renewable Constraint Payments

Primary Author or Creator:
Craig Dalzell
Publisher:
Common Weal
Alternative Published Date
2026
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Type of Resource:
Article
Fast Facts

The UK could move away from the need to pay energy companies to turn off wind turbines when there’s too much wind.

More details

Instead of paying the generators to turn off capacity, Charge the transmission owners for lack of capacity, and those payments are used for increasing transmission capacity.

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English