When you read about this latest wind farm scandal it shows just how wasteful the rush to achieve net zero actually is. Not only that, but the policy is not even achieving net zero. It is merely posturing and pretending to be doing something, when in practice it is destroying natural peat bog and costing a lot of money to produce a very low yield of electricity.
Rather than producing electricity at a load factor of around 50 per cent, as forecast and promoted by owner SSE Renewables, the Viking Energy wind farm has so far been churning out electricity at a rate of just 17 per cent of what is potentially possible.
The 103-turbine project became operational in summer last year.
The average load factor for onshore wind farms in the UK currently stands at 26.34 per cent. Read the details here:
Shetland’s Viking Windfarm Scandal | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
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April 21, 2025 at 01:46AM
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