The UK has some of the highest energy costs in the world and part of the reason is this:
In 2025, *£1.46 billion was spent switching off wind turbines and managing the system, often requiring gas plants to switch on, with those costs ultimately passed through to bill payers.
Yesterday alone £2.7 million was wasted ... that's enough clean energy to power Scotland for a day.
Why?
When it’s very windy, the grid becomes congested and electricity can’t get to where it’s needed. As a result, we pay to switch off wind generation while simultaneously paying gas plants to switch on elsewhere.
In effect, we are paying twice for the same electricity, once to turn it off, and again to replace it.
This is exactly the kind of problem Bitcoin’s flexible demand response is designed to solve. It can absorb excess energy at the source and turn what is currently wasted into revenue instead of loss.
We don’t lack energy, we lack the ability to use it efficiently.
Check it out for yourself, this is now my new favourite website:
Wasted Wind
Wasted Wind
Britain wastes millions a day switching off wind turbines. See how much has been wasted today, and in 2025.
* This could have bought nearly 19,000 Bitcoin during the bull run. At today's prices that same money would have secured over 27,500 Bitcoin.
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