This website shows how much money is paid to companies to turn off wind turnbines when there is excess. Goverment should taper this over the next 15 years to eliminate such ridicolous waste of money.
The owners should be buying energy storage and energy conversion schemes and store the energy to put on the grid at a later time. Also those living near these wind turbines should be getting a bigger discount on their energy during these periods of excess. Some economic and moral justice needed here. The UK customer is too often ripped off by both government and business.
A billion pounds wasted could be used to buy us 62500 energy storage systems at £16000 average price. Each system would get us at least 13kwh (Tesla powerwall – which is a premium product – there cheaper ones available). That would yield us 812,500 kwh (0.8gwh) of energy storage. These units will work for at least 12 years. This effectively is a virtual power plant added to our grid, by keeping it geographically spread over the UK – not only would we save a lot of money – we would be improving the grid and kicking off gas power plants from our grid. Gas has been the main reason our energy bill have been so high over the last 10 years. Bad goverment policies have made the issue worse, but there is hope. We can turn things around.