A new report from Analysis Company Montel has shown that the amount of energy that is lost by limitation – when projects for renewable energy are switched off to prevent the electricity grid with surplus electricity – is sufficient to provide power in Scotland in Scotland.
According to the report, Groot -Britain has a total of 4.6 TWH of renewable energy in H1 2025, an increase of 15% compared to H1 2024. A total of £ 152 million was paid to energy generators to compensate them for this restriction, with the costs of this ultimately by Energie -Consumers on accounts.
The vast majority of the shortened volume came from Noord -Schotland, part of the country that hosts a significant percentage of the VK’s wind energy due to the coastal border with the North Sea.
A total of 86% of the shortened energy per volume was cut from wind turbines in northern Scotland, which made 4TW in limited energy. According to Montel, this amount of electricity, which Billpayers costs a total of £ 116 million, is sufficient to meet the demand of every domestic household in Scotland.
However, despite the rising amount of current that is wasted by limitation, the costs of curtailment actually decrease. Montel notes that the £ 152 million paid to energy companies in the first half of this year is actually 7% lower than the equivalent amount that is paid in H1 2024, despite the volume of converted energy in 2025 15% higher.
Phil Hewett, director of Montel Analytics, credits these falling costs to the increased number of offshore wind farms that are financed by the contracts for the difference (CFD) schedule, which are cheaper to be eliminated because of their subsidy contract structure. Hewett also notes that the defendant can continue to fall in the coming years as more CFD subsidized wind farms come online.
Fintan Devenney, senior energy market analyst at Montel Analytics and the author of this report, noted that only 63% of the wind energy generated in the UK ends up in the hands of consumers, with the remaining 37% the money from energy bill costs.
Devenney added that renewable energy sources are therefore “key” to support cost-effective decarbonization, which states: “Unless policy makers pay attention to the need to marry renewable power with public systems and infrastructure, then an outdated transmission network (the national energy-allocation of the national seniorician can continue the national sessions of the national sessions of the drawings of consumer sessions. Energy (the national energy system of the National Energy (the national energy system of the National Energy (the National Energy Operator), is a network of a network of the net legs of the network of the network of the network. “
Solar Curtillment also in the increase
Insimation is not only a problem for the wind energy sector, but only becomes an increasingly common occurrence for PV energy plants for solar energy.
In particular, Ireland has seen an upright percentages of the solar energy disruption, with the volume of solar energy shortened in June 2025 – 24 GWh – seven times higher than the 3.5 GWh seen in June 2024.
Devenney noted about this: “With Nesos Future Energy scenarios that imagine that about 15TWH is required of solar determination in 2050, this analysis brings the issue of renewable integration into sharp focus.”
“This is the time for the government to come together with the industry and to build the holistic view of the policy that makes the optimum placement of generation possible, sufficient investments in grid infrastructure and the right investment signals to illuminate the network restrictions.”
Can shortened energy be useful?
Many in the energy sector have considered alternative options to defeat the limited UK grate system without resorting to limitation. While storage systems for battery energy (BESS) are often mentioned as a solution, others have presented new, innovative ideas for this excess energy.
Shil Ghosh, COO and co-founder at Direct Air Capture Provider Mission Zero Technologies, called Burtailing Renewable Energy “An economic and environmental-like goal”, which suggests that excess energy can be used to provide carbon collection facilities in the direction of the world’s carbon.
Ghosh added: “Reducing our excess electricity to energy-intensive but vital climate technologies, such as capturing carbon from our atmosphere, is the perfect use of this precious resource.”
