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While UK energy consumers have paid £12,613 for curtailed wind this month, some operators are bucking the trend. @EDFenergy's Neart Na Gaoithe has paid -£33,957 to the system, and Moray Offshore Windfarm East L has paid -£83,022. Unique strategies. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
Get ready for a quiet grid. UK wind generation is forecast to plummet from 199,402.5 MWh yesterday to just ~27,319 MWh on Nov 7 and ~23,058 MWh on Nov 8. The intermittency challenge is real. 💨📊 curtailcoin.com
Genuinely good news: the UK grid absorbed 201,883.5 MWh of wind yesterday with ZERO curtailment. Energy consumers paid £0 for switched-off wind. This is how it should work. ✅📊 curtailcoin.com
November's curtailment costs have flipped! After farms paid the grid earlier this month, the total for Nov 2026 now stands at £84,420 for 3,582.7 MWh curtailed. A swift reversal from the negative payments seen last week. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
November 2026 is off to a wild start for curtailment. So far, just 578.3 MWh curtailed, with farms collectively paying -£37,168 to the grid. A stark contrast to Nov 2025 (£35,259,372 cost) and Nov 2024 (£29,560,961 cost)! 💸📉📊 curtailcoin.com
Genuinely good news: the UK grid absorbed 219,959.5 MWh of wind yesterday with almost no curtailment (0.3 MWh). Energy consumers paid just £57. This is how it should work. ✅📊 curtailcoin.com
The UK's wind curtailment paradox deepens: So far this year (Jan 1-Nov 1), 10,803,750.1 MWh of wind has been wasted – far more than 8,322,097.8 MWh in 2025. But costs to consumers are down at £297,897,179 vs £326,015,618. More waste, but at a 'better' price. 📈💸📊 curtailcoin.
For the fourth consecutive day, UK wind farms collectively PAID the grid to switch off their generation. Yesterday, they paid -£37,225 NET to curtail 578.0 MWh of wind. This unusual negative bidding trend continues. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
Wind barely blew yesterday (62,711.0 MWh total gen), leading to low curtailment (1,439.9 MWh). But even on this quiet day, wind farms collectively PAID the UK grid -£59,993. Moray Offshore Windfarm East L alone paid -£52,653. 💸💨📊 curtailcoin.com
A single operator, Moray Offshore Windfarm East L, paid the UK grid -£945,885 yesterday to switch off 10,587.4 MWh of wind. This colossal daily payment highlights their unique strategy. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
The UK's wind curtailment paradox deepens: yesterday, wind farms collectively PAID the grid -£741,139 NET to switch off 48,944.9 MWh. A staggering 34.8% of available wind was wasted. 💸💨📊 curtailcoin.com
Moray Offshore Windfarm East L's October negative payments have now crossed the -£5M mark, hitting -£5,078,581. They've paid the UK grid to switch off 175,372.2 MWh of wind this month alone. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
Moray Offshore Windfarm East L has now paid the UK grid a staggering -£4,132,697 this month to switch off 164,784.8 MWh of wind. A unique, costly strategy that stands out. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
This year's wasted wind energy could have mined 6840.7353 Bitcoin so far, already surpassing the entire 2025 total of 6702.6705 BTC. Grid inefficiency continues to cost. 💰💨📊 curtailcoin.com
UK wind farms collectively PAID the grid -£506,610 yesterday to switch off 16,538.9 MWh of wind. This unusual trend of negative bidding, led by Moray Offshore Windfarm East L, continues. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
October 2026 has already hit a new record for wind curtailment volume, with 1,690,886.5 MWh switched off so far. That's more than all of Oct 2025 (1.28M MWh). Yet, the cost to consumers (£47.0M) is still lower than Oct 2025 (£54.7M). More waste, cheaper for consumers due to negat
UK energy consumers paid a staggering £5,693,536 to switch off 98,626.6 MWh of wind yesterday. That's one of the highest daily curtailment bills ever. The cost of grid inefficiency keeps rising. 💸💨📊 curtailcoin.com
Moray Offshore Windfarm East L has recorded -£2,602,763 in payments to the system this month, while Moray Offshore Wind East Ltd shows -£2,109,771. These significant negative payments highlight their unique strategies. 💸📊 curtailcoin.com
Moray Offshore Wind West Ltd has already wasted 1,458,805.9 MWh of wind this year, surpassing its entire 2025 curtailment volume of 1,379,689.2 MWh. More wind switched off, more waste for energy consumers. 📈💨📊 curtailcoin.com
UK wind curtailment costs surged yesterday: energy consumers paid £4,764,219 to switch off 85,409.6 MWh of potential wind power. That's 24.2% of the day's total wind generation wasted. The grid's struggle continues. 💨📊 curtailcoin.com