Do coal power stations have to be paid not to produce?
Once upon a time, electricity had a value defined by demand, not by the weather. Power that can’t be delivered as and when it’s needed has absolutely no commercial value.
Which brings us to weather-dependent wind power; generated in chaotic, random intervals, it’s a case of either feast or famine.
But businesses and households don’t tend to run to nature’s fickle pulses. Indeed, the very point of the Industrial Revolution – central to which was harnessing and employing thermal power – was for society itself to dictate its terms of operation.
There is only one reason that we’re still talking about wind power, at all: endless subsidies.
One of which takes the form of “constraint payments”, by which taxpayers and/or power consumers are forced to literally pay wind power outfits to not produce electricity. [Note to Ed: getting paid for doing nothing is good work if you can get it!]
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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