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Britain's Renewable Energy Boom Is Hitting a Grid Bottleneck

OilPrice.com·Oct 25, 2026 · 2:00 PM CT
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Britain's fast-growing wind and solar capacity is running into transmission bottlenecks, forcing the grid operator to pay wind farms to switch off while firing up gas plants elsewhere. The U.K. is spending up to £50 million a day to balance the grid, including £47.9 million on Oct. 14 alone, OilPrice.com reports.

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