North of B4
Highlands, islands, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Perthshire
- Switched off, 30 days
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- Paid
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- Average paid per MWh
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Scotland's wasted wind
— GWh
of Scottish wind power was paid to switch off in the last 7 days.
- Paid to wind farms, 7 days
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- Switched off, 30 days
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- Paid, 30 days
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Where the wind was wasted
Power curtailed behind a grid bottleneck can only be used by demand behind the same bottleneck. Scotland has two: B4 (north of the Central Belt) and B6 (the border).
Between B4 and B6
Central Belt, Lothians, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway
- Switched off, 30 days
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- Paid
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- Average paid per MWh
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Wind switched off each day, last 90 days
North of B4 Between B4 and B6
Most-curtailed wind farms, last 30 days
| Wind farm | Zone | Switched off | Paid | Per MWh |
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Negative payments are real: some farms (often on Contracts for Difference) bid to pay the grid when they're turned down, rather than be paid. Why.
How we check these numbers
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