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Britain spends £1.5BILLION paying wind farms to switch off and gas plants to step in
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Britain spends £1.5BILLION paying wind farms to switch off and gas plants to step in
Britain has spent more than £1.5billion this year paying wind farms to switch off and gas plants to step in, figures show.
On one day in September the bill topped £1 million every hour, according to Octopus Energy.
The figures mean the country has already passed last year's total costs of £1.47 billion with three months still to go.
Octopus Energy founder Greg Jackson said the current system was "madness".
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5 Oct, 13:29