I Have Always Been Totally Against Wind Farms

because I have yet to see any evidence of them making a worthwhile investment,

unless of course you own a wind farm!, the odds are really stacked in the wind farms owner, even if you do not produce any electricity, payments of £11.1 million was paid over three years to ScottishPower, a Spanish-owned firm, which operates the Whitelee wind farm around 10 miles from Glasgow, in another example of throwing money away, an analysis shows that 10 wind farms have each been paid more than £3 million over the past three years to shut down their turbines, 


the sums given out for non-production of electricity are eye wateringly high, in 2011 the Norwegian owners of the Crystal Rig wind farm in the Scottish Borders had not produced electricity for eight and a half hours so they were paid compensation, how much for the eight and a half hours? I would have thought a few thousand for each hour was excessive, but I was totally wrong, they had been paid £1.2 million for not producing a thing!

among the payments was a total of £7.6 million to RWE Innogy, a German-owned firm, for shutting down the Farr wind farm, 10 miles from Inverness on dozens of occasions, Fred Olsen has received £3.2 million for shutting down its 85-turbine Crystal Rig wind farm over the past three years, now here is the good news for Fred, the main loss from turning off its turbines was a consumer subsidy amounting to around £50, therefore, it was still receiving £64 per megawatt hour more than if it had been generating electricity, so lets read that again, it was still receiving £64 per megawatt hour more than if it had been generating electricity! I still can not understand why the British public do not cry enough and ban these costly farms, just think how much the average household power bills would tumble,

the strange thing I guess is that people really believe they save money, but to see some of the success stories (not), have a look here,

now, where oh where can I buy a wind farm? then sit back to collect my windfall profits for producing nothing!