{"id":2061,"date":"2011-05-07T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/wind-produces-much-energy.html"},"modified":"2011-05-07T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T13:34:38","slug":"wind-produces-much-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/wind-produces-much-energy.html","title":{"rendered":"Wind produces much energy"},"content":{"rendered":"According to\nHerald Scotland 2 May 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.heraldscotland.com\/breaking-news\/?mode=article&#038;sit\ne=hs&#038;id=N0215511304251519691A\">\nRow after wind farms &#8216;turned off&#8217;<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.heraldscotland.com\/breaking-news\/?mode=article&#038;sit\ne=hs&#038;id=N0215511304251519691A\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.heraldandtimeslabs.com\/breaking-new\ns\/pics\/N0215511304251519691A-1.jpg\"><\/a>\nSix wind farms were given six-figure payments to switch off their turbines\nbecause the Scottish grid network could not absorb all the energy being\nproduced, it has emerged.\n<p>\nResearch by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) found energy companies\nwere paid a total of \u00a3900,000 for stopping the turbines for several\nhours between April 5 and 6 this year.\n<p>\nThe REF said some of the payments were as high as 20 times the value\nof the electricity which would have been generated if the turbines\nkept running.\n<p>\nThe National Grid makes constraint payments to power stations that agree\nto stop generating in order to stabilise the network.\n<p>\nIt happens when the grid system or a section of the system is unable\nto absorb all the electricity being generated, and some generators that\nare contracted to generate are asked to stand down.\n<\/blockquote>\nSounds like they just need to fix their prices.\nAdding some local storage of some kind would also help.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Herald Scotland 2 May 2011, Row after wind farms &#8216;turned off&#8217;: Six wind farms were given six-figure payments to switch off their turbines because the Scottish grid network could not absorb all the energy being produced, it has emerged. Research by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) found energy companies were paid a total [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,36],"tags":[1624,4603,4602,4605,4604,8716],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy","category-wind","tag-energy","tag-ref","tag-renewable-energy-foundation","tag-scotland","tag-storage","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}