UK Paid to Boost Coal Provision While Ordering Wind Output Cut
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The Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm on the coast of Montrose, UK.
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The UK ordered one of the country’s biggest wind farms to cut output over the weekend even as the grid paid a coal plant to help maintain supply security.
National Grid issued an order, in place until Tuesday morning, for a portion of the Seagreen offshore wind farm off the east coast of Scotland to curtail generation as the UK’s grid operator worked to manage electricity supply and demand. At the same time, it paid Uniper SE’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired plant to be available to produce power.