Wind farms are unlikely to benefit from high wholesale prices paid for their electricity, the industry maintains. Photograph: PAAll wind farms will not benefit from surging electricity prices this winter, the industry’s representative body says.
However, industry body Wind Energy Ireland says that deals these businesses have with other electricity generators will bar many of them from benefiting from the high prices that their power will fetch on the wholesale market. Wind farms must have deals to sell power to other electricity generating businesses to operate. Mr Moran explained that these agreements’ terms determine how the parties divide any upside between the guaranteed REFIT price and the wholesale market price.
The Republic’s wind farm owners include big power companies that supply homes and businesses such as ESB, Energia and SSE Airtricity, as well as Bord na Móna and publicly quoted Greencoat Renewables, which do not have retail energy supply businesses, but sell to the wholesale market. Mr Moran noted that wind power helped take some heat out of energy inflation. Official figures show that in February, the average wholesale electricity price was €175.23 MWh, but on days when wind-generated electricity was widely available, this fell to €134.25 MWh.
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