💨🍃 Scotland has more wind turbines than ever, but they are often paid not to spin.

[theferret@mastodon.scot]

💨🍃 Scotland has more wind turbines than ever, but they are often paid not to spin. Those payments are expensive - they've cost the UK more than £1.3bn in 2025.

What is going on? As part of our new De-noiser series, we've been taking a look: www.theferret.scot/why-are-scottish-wind-farms-paid-billions-to-switch-off/

[stephaniek@mastodon.scot]

@theferret really interesting but your link is missing the first characters, here you go:

https://www.theferret.scot/why-are-scottish-wind-farms-paid-billions-to-switch-off/