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UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool (www.rechargenews.com)

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Britain wasted £649m already this year powering down wind farms as there is not enough grid capacity to send renewable energy where it is needed, utility finds

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

okay, so build more batteries

Octopus are an energy company, are they not allowed to build their own storage? Or do they just grift off the National Grid and are asking the government to do it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but also greater transmission capacity. And dinorwig style hydro batteries are also super cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We haven't got many geographical sites that support pumped storage. They got surveyed back in the 50 and 60s and the ones that were suitable got built.

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