The storm Amy brings negative electricity prices to the United Kingdom

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The UK is scheduled to face a joint record in negative electricity prices on Saturday, as Storm Amy pays huge amounts of wind energy in the network.

Power prices will be negative for 17 hours from late Friday night, and match a record in May, with the national network expected 20 GB of wind energy from the storm, or more than three quarters of the total electricity demand in the country.

The current window of wind force in the United Kingdom was last year, when the generation of 22.5 GB was.

But Fintan Devenny, Senior Energy Officer in Montel, suggested that the actual wind generation of the storm may be much lower than expectations. He said that the wind farms may stop if the strong winds threaten the turbine damage, and if its benefits are exposed to the negative prices, and if the network itself is not able to manage the increase in the generation.

He said: “There is a few infrastructure of the network to move all of that energy from Scotland, where there are no people to use everything, so the regime operator is responsible for paying these wind farms to close and this bears the cost.”

The negative prices of electricity have become increasingly common throughout Europe as more renewable energy sources are added to the network. UK energy prices reached a decrease of 19.10 pounds in early September, for example, but long periods of negative prices are still rare.

Wholesale energy prices in the United Kingdom turn negative when there is a lot of generation of electricity, often from wind and solar energy, and there is not enough demand, and therefore the network needs buyers to take the surplus in order to survive.

In those moments, it may be one of the cheapest power plants to push others to use electricity instead of turning off its generators. Families do not tend to see declines, which are softened by a retail tariff, but adult industrial users can sometimes be pushed to use more electricity when the network has a surplus.

The amber alerts of the storm were placed in place for parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, with wind expectations of more than 95 miles per hour, according to weather forecasts in the United Kingdom.