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It's not that complicated.
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Its not that simple either.
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The government has been paying windfarms to shut down at high times to not overload the grid.
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Correct.
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If you have cheaper electricity people will use more electricity. If you tell me I have super cheap electricity, I will go out and buy an electric car thus I use more electricity.
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As a novelty, yes people try hard to use more, but that soon wears off.
Of course, using twice as much at half the price saves you nothing at all.
Where does it promise "super cheap" ? It "may" be cheaper, some of the time.
Just remember wind power is intermittant, and solar doesnt work at all when its dark.
For example, on Apr 16 wind generation was almost 18GW
Two days later the wind died, and it barely made 2GW, on Apr 8 it dropped below 1GW.
Everyone will be buying electric cars eventually, whatever the electricity price is, enjoy "Net-Zero".
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More electricity used in the local area means less needs to be transported down to the south.
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Transport is a two way thing.
When the wind isnt blowing, you need electricty from somewhere else.
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.. the government will save money not paying the windfarms to shut down.
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Probably the real reason they like the idea.
They dont care about the price we pay, only that they stop paying.
While Scotland is often quoted, Wind Farms are all over the UK.
Atm, Scotland has about 3 times the wind generation capacity of England.
England of course has far more Solar generation, and is increasing its Wind generation.
Scotland on the otherhand is unlikely to ever have much Solar generation.