Cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reaches nearly £50m a day
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The cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reached £47.9m on Wednesday, driven by bottlenecks that forced the grid operator to turn off windfarms and hydropower plants with about 9 gigawatts of capacity while activating gas and biomass plants. The expenses, which add to household energy bills and totaled a record £505m in September, highlight delays in the country's £150bn power networks upgrade.
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