Wind and solar farms are wasting energy at rising rates by stopping production because there is not enough capacity to transport or store the electricity when demand is not high enough to use it straight away.
Almost one-tenth of Britain’s planned wind output was stopped from being produced last year and almost 30 per cent of Northern Ireland’s, according to analysis shared with the Financial Times by Aurora Energy Research.
About 5 per cent of Germany’s renewables output was also curtailed the previous year and 2.5 per cent of France’s solar output restricted during the summer, a separate report from energy data group Montel found.
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