UK Wind Farms Paid Million to NOT Generate Electricity

Here is a novel idea! When will Georgetown embrace the idea of paying the wind and solar generators to NOT generate electricity when there is a surplus to the city's needs? UK Pays Wind Generators to Shut Down

Over £12 million was handed out to wind farms in the United Kingdom last week, following a major outage in a powerline that transported energy from Scottish wind farms to England. The handouts will be tacked onto consumers’ energy bills throughout the country. 

The firms were paid between 25 and 80 per cent more than they would have earned were the turbines actually running, reports The Telegraph.

Notice how the payments for no electricity are tacked onto the consumer's bills!

Is this the next "innovation" the city will try?