Wasted wind power should be used to capture carbon

Wasted wind power should be used to capture carbon

Scottish wind farms were paid not to produce 37% of their planned output during the first half of this year, according to research from energy analytics firm Montel. These four terawatt hours of curtailed energy output would have been enough to power all Scottish homes for the entire six-month period. This wasted energy could be put to better use by powering carbon capture and Direct Air Capture (DAC), or other energy intensive climate technolog…