Nicovel0 🍉Nicovel0@mastodon.social
Oct 16, 2026, 6:44 AMretooted JuneSim63 💚
"Overall, windfarms and hydropower plants with about 9 gigawatts of capacity were paid to not generate on Wednesday..enough to power more than 8m typical households.
Instead, the grid operator was forced to pay for a string of gas and biomass plants to fire up and bought more electricity imports from Europe via high-voltage subsea power cables."
A ludicrous situation.
NB. The National Grid was privatised in 1990 by Thatcher.