Wind and all that

[Dod101]

It occurs to me that very little electricity will have been fed to the grid from many Scottish windfarms since about Christmas. We have had many days, like today of flat calm and this at the very time when I would imagine there is quite a high demand for electricity (maybe not on a Sunday but in general) because it is very cold here and, more or less across the country, has been since the end of December. Maybe since windfarms are paid when the grid cannot take their electricity, the windfarm operators should be paying the grid when it has demand which they cannot fulfill?

Otherwise they are a bit like IT managers when they were in receipt of the now more or less discarded performance fees, which it was eventually recognised are a one way benefit to the managers.

As it is I imagine that their income must be well down for the last month or so.

Dod