ALMOST £13 million in secret compensation payments has been paid to Scottish wind farm operators to shut down over the past four months, a charity claimed yesterday.
The Renewable Energy Foundation, which was set up by television game show host Noel Edmonds and is seen as being anti-wind farm, published the figures for what it says is a clandestine system of payments to owners of the giant turbines to prevent the over-supply of electricity.
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