SSE claims over £1.1 million in constraint payments this month
Chloe Irvine
Figures from the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) have revealed up until yesterday (Sunday) SSE earned more than £1.1 million in constraint payments this month alone.
REF also estimated 78 per cent of what Viking’s operators claimed to be able to generate in June has been discarded.
Concerns were also raised on Stop More Windfarms On Shetland’s Facebook page over how often the turbines has been spotted not turning this month.
SSE stressed it had consistently made it clear it is not responsible for deciding “who gets constrained” when the grid is at capacity.
“As we’ve consistently said, the National Electricity System Operator — not SSE — decides who gets constrained when the grid is at capacity,” the energy giant said in a statement.
“The fix is faster grid upgrades. SSE is investing billions — more than it makes in profit — to build the grid that will boost capacity and help deliver more clean, homegrown energy across the UK.”
DR I M TINKLER
This entire VE project is an obscenity. We must stop making more of these monuments to avarice and stupidity.
Suluet Navara Totup
I invested my money K1,000 last year 2024,but I did not receive my profits yet
Steven Jarmson
I would seem given the location and loss of generated power in transit, viking might never turn a blade.
If the green lot had half a brain, they’d build these monstrous wind farms next to cities to cut transit losses, and also so those who actually benefit can see the destruction “saving” the planet cause!
Handing out guaranteed payments for simply building these environmental disasters is utterly disgusting.