Balancing costs for April on the UK electricity grid were up 49% year on year as constraint payments to gas plants more than doubled to GBP56 million ($70 million), according to data from National Grid. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Costs of GBP125 million for the month compared to GBP84 million for April 2019, the increase reflecting the challenges posed by low demand and, as a proportion of the generation mix, much higher renewable energy production. April data also showed a small constraint payment (GBP1.9 million) to coal-fired generation, proving that while coal generators may have been out of the wholesale market for a record run of days this year, they have not been entirely inactive. Wind farm […]