One wonders how many of the ugly windmills in the UK are not connected to any turbines and just spinning in the wind so that the constructors could obtain the government grants.
This is a story from France via the Front National I have used the google translation which gives the gist of this scandalous state of affairs in France anr EDF at it here???
http://www.frontnational.com/2016/04...eme-principal/
Press release of the Collective New Ecology
An article in the satirical weekly Le Canard chains of 13 April, entitled "Wind farms that sell wind," says a disturbing statement: "Half of the turbines located in France revolve in space, and are not connected to anything. "In his argument, the newspaper is based in fact on simple figures: in France, 10,700 megawatts of wind power were" not connected "to the grid, a total of 21,100 megawatts.
But if our wind turbines do not seem to run dry by ERDF, this does not solve the main problem of this energy. This problem is primarily that of the establishment of a fully public EDF holder wind and controlling their balanced presence on the national territory. This is necessary because only a quality public service can provide a long-term framework for implementation of the most respectful wind can rural and our landscapes vigilant on sanitary standards, including about infrasonic disturbances generated by these infrastructures, and above all, anxious to give labor a priority for businesses and French employees.