{"id":75058,"date":"2018-01-09T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:46","slug":"wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off","title":{"rendered":"Wind farms paid \u00a31m a week to switch off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, $$$$, turn that thing off, you\u2019re making too much cheap power.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New figures show \u00a353m was given to the wind industry last year to keep turbines switched off to regulate electricity supplied to National Grid.<\/p>\n<p>Since wind farms first started receiving constraint payments five years ago, more than \u00a3100 million has been handed over in compensation for switching off. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/energy\/windpower\/11323685\/Wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/energy\/windpower\/11323...h-off.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, $$$$, turn that thing off, you\u2019re making too much cheap power. New figures show \u00a353m was given to the wind industry last year to keep turbines switched off to regulate electricity supplied to National Grid. Since wind farms first started receiving constraint payments five years ago, more than \u00a3100 million has been handed over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75069,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75058\/revisions\/75069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}