EDF’s UK chief has said that the UK should stop building wind farms, as the country already has more electricity that needed.

As reported in The Telegraph, Simone Rossi, the chief executive of EDF Energy, has said that reduced demand and increased capacity means that we are creating more electricity than needed and creating more wind generation should be put on pause until the grid catches up.

He argues that developing greater demand, that is mainly witching from gas, such be the priority, and currently supply is outstripping demand. He pointed to the fact that electricity demand has actually fallen, not risen as predicted, and generating capacity is now twice as much as the transmission grid can handle.

Some of this overcapacity has resulted in effective payment to stop generating, or ‘curtailment payments’ that have cost around £800m so far this year.

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