Wind farms have been paid to refrain from producing up to half of the electricity they are capable of generating, according to research that led MPs to warn that" inappropriate" decisions on wind power were" forcing excess costs onto consumers".An analysis found that, in 2020, three large wind farms in Scotland were paid a total of ￡24.5 million to fail to produce about half of their potential output. Researchers said the" constraint payments", which are ultimately added to consumer bills, were