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As we know, wind farms are paid to turn off when transmission capacity is full, especially when exporting to England from Scotland, where most are to be found. These payments can often exceed £200, and indeed £250, per megawatt-hour, particularly for large remote projects. The renewables obligations deals last for 20 years. They are not cheap and they can never be cheap. No matter what the gas price or the wholesale cost of electricity is, they will always be much more expensive, and the subsidy goes up year after year. The Government are trying to address that today, but it is the subsidy itself, not the incremental inflation change, that does the real damage.