Scottish Wind Farm Slammed by President Trump Is 65% Subsidised by Energy Bill Payers – Guido Fawkes

REVEALED: Scottish Wind Farm Slammed by President Trump Is 65% Subsidised by Energy Bill Payers

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President Trump is in Scotland right now. Before rinsing Keir Starmer to his face at a press conference earlier, POTUS slammed the ugly wind farm visible from his golf course in Aberdeenshire…

Guido has been looking into the wind farm, known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre. It only has 11 turbines and was intended as a ‘demonstration’ facility – e.g. a proof-of-concept wind farm designed to be shown off to developers. 2023 is the most recent year for which its financial accounts are published. According to these, the wind farm generated 270,562 MWh, and received £45.2 million in subsidies, and £24.3 million in income from electricity sales. In other words, 65% of its income is from government subsidies, that is, from ordinary payers in their energy bills…

We also know that it received an average price of £256.8/MWh, which compares to average wholesale electricity prices in 2023 of £94.17/MWh. So the hated wind farm slammed by the President is receiving an insane 2.73 times the market price for its output. Trump called the wind farm a “con job.” By Guido’s maths, he’s absolutely right…

UPDATE: Commenting, Harry Wilkinson from GWPF said:

“We’ve been locked into appallingly expensive deals with offshore wind. These are correctly described a ‘con job’, but Miliband is threatening to make things worse with his 2030 clean power plan. Decades ago we were promised that renewable subsidies would not be needed for long and would eventually get prices down. The plan hasn’t worked and we’re still paying through the nose.”