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SSE Earns £45 Million When Grids Can’t Cope With Wind Supply
SSE Plc is earning growing sums from an increasingly common practice in Britain’s power system: being paid to shut down its wind farms.
When strong gusts whip across Scotland and turbines produce more power than the country’s aging grid can handle, the system operator orders them offline — and pays gas plants in England to fire up instead. The practice, known as curtailment, keeps power flowing but adds costs to consumers.