Tell the Government: closer should be cheaper.
Across Britain, wind turbines are producing clean, cheap power for millions of households.
But there’s a problem. We’re frequently paying wind farms to stop generating power. Because they sometimes provide more energy than our outdated electricity grid can handle.
In 2023, bill payers spent almost £1bn paying wind farms "constraint payments" to switch off because there was nowhere for the power to go. That figure could reach £6bn by 2030, unless we change our electricity market.
There’s a solution: local energy pricing.
Units of electricity are currently sold at exactly the same price regardless of where they’re generated. Moving to a system of local energy pricing, where energy that’s generated close by is cheaper for local people and businesses would:
- Cut bills for everyone by reducing constraint payments
- Put more money in the pockets of people who live nearest to where the energy is generated
- Incentivise businesses to invest and create jobs nearby