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Wasted wind - So far in 2025, Britain has wasted £1.1bn switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.
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If only we could store the extra electricity generated, or lend it to other countries and then get it back when needed
The problem is storing energy…
But solutions are being developed by expoliting potential energy and it might be viable.
Octopus gives me an hour of 2 of ‘free’ energy (they look at my average consumption during that time and everything I use on top of that is refunded) when it’s windy. It should be more mainstream!
Or perchance there was any way of linking said green energy via HVDC under construction. Maybe in the east of the country