Why windfarms get paid to switch off | Carbon Brief

Between 2011 and 2012, National Grid says constraint payments to windfarms were just over ten per cent of the total amount paid to all generators - about £34 million.

Windfarms produce less than five per cent of our electricity so the payments they are getting are out of proportion to the amount of electricity they generate.

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.@ret_ward's extreme view #3: Grantham is the only oil multi-millionaire allowed to use his oil money to influence debate @mehdirhasan

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.@ret_ward's extreme view #4: Anyone who disagrees with Bob Ward has already been debunked, a priori. @mehdirhasan

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.@ret_ward's extreme view #2: people should be allowed to say things in media only if it agrees with official climate policy. @mehdirhasan

Time to forget global tipping points - 06 March 2013 - New Scientist

Others, like me, are convinced that no theoretical or empirical evidence exists for such a claim, and that a widespread belief in the existence of such a point of no return threatens to push ecological science and its application in the wrong direction.