Wind curtailment 2025 cost nearly £1bn

[BotusBuild]

https://wastedwind.energy/2025-09-25

 

[ProDave]

Why do I only see the start of that article?  Is it behind a paywall?  but nothing to tell me why I can't read it all?

[BotusBuild]

It is only a short single page piece 

[ProDave]

7 minutes ago, BotusBuild said:

It is only a short single page piece 

It's a 1 page preview of the start of an article.  the last paragraphs fades out to nothing, it clearly continues but you can't read it.  Usually there then pops up a message how to subscribe or whatever?  But not this one.

[BotusBuild]

[jack]

1 hour ago, ProDave said:

Why do I only see the start of that article? 

 

It's not really an article, more a tool that shows the cost of wind generation curtailment and paying for gas to make up what was curtailed. The other info is just very brief (line or two each) commentary about what the page is showing and how we might improve the situation.

[JohnMo]

Is it true? No links to source material, could be a random number generator - instead of a wind generator.

 

But small money in economics terms. Sounds huge, but its not really. 

[SteamyTea]

I am sure all generation companies get curtailment payments, as do large consumers.

It is how the market is operated.

 

[DamonHD]

FYI: https://wind-curtailment-app-ahq7fucdyq-lz.a.run.app/

[MikeSharp01]

4 minutes ago, DamonHD said:

FYI: https://wind-curtailment-app-ahq7fucdyq-lz.a.run.app/

That's an interesting link looks like the blog at the top is about on the money!

[S2D2]

It's real, I noticed today Octopus have a banner linking to it at the top of their home page. It's made by an employee.

[sgt_woulds]

Ed Miliband was vilified in the press for proposing a regional pricing system that would have addressed some of these issues.

 

The main issue is that it is cheap to build onshore wind in Scotland, so lots of private investment goes there, but those investors have no responsibility to pay for power transmission to the South, where the demand is.  

 

The answer is either to demand a dividend to fund new transmission cables, or allow zonal demand pricing that will make it more attractive for investors to build wind and solar in the South and pay for the additional planning costs and construction prices involved.  The lower prices near to points of power generation would also encourage energy-intensive industries to move North, which would surely be a good way to spread wealth more evenly throughout the country.  Electric smelting makes far more sense oop North, where lower power prices would make us more competitive with the rest of the world.

 

Local zonal generation with small-scale storage suits the use case for grid-forming battery storage, which would allow us to shut down more polluting power stations (I'm including Drax in that description).

 

Unfortunately, the only message the public received from clickbait tabloids was that electricity prices would go up in the South.  

 

I'm starting to think that the 'Green Revolution' we need in this country should look more like a Chinese dictatorship.  Otherwise, nothing will ever change.  😞

 

 

 

[JohnMo]

4 minutes ago, sgt_woulds said:

Chinese dictatorship.

The Singaporean dictatorship would be way better. Or simply bring a law "for the greater good" which works very well in Singapore.

[sgt_woulds]

Guess I'll have to Google that.  Every day is a school day 🙂

 

 

[BotusBuild]

On 26/09/2025 at 09:12, S2D2 said:

It's real, I noticed today Octopus have a banner linking to it at the top of their home page. It's made by an employee.

Thats where i got it from