Cost to turn off UK wind.

Curtailment is the moment we pay wind farms not to generate clean power because the system can’t handle it. The irony? We often fire up fossil plants instead. This tracker shows the cost of turning off cheap renewables while paying more to burn fuel we’re trying to move away from.

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Latest spend

Month-to-date curtailment spend

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Approx. per-household impact this month
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Today
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Balancing + redispatch

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This week
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Week-to-date curtailment

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This month
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Month-to-date curtailment

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Year to date
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Year-to-date curtailment

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Curtailment trend

Rolling costs

Partial days include all available BID prices; missing prices are left out, so totals may be lower than final settlement.