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Record Wind in Scotland Means Grid Tells Some Turbines to Stop
Britain’s wind-power production hit a new record Wednesday afternoon thanks to blustery spring weather
A wind farm in the UK.
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Wind farms across the UK are producing more electricity than the grid is able to cope with, forcing the network operator to ask some turbines in Scotland to shut down.
National Grid Plc asked some wind farms connected to the local network in the west of Scotland to reduce output by 25 megawatts. While that’s a tiny fraction of the record amount of wind supplies being produced by blustery weather spinning turbines across the country, it highlights the difficulties of a network still unable to store large amounts of electricity.