Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.

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3. Scotland regularly generates an electricity surplus over its own requirements

Unfortunately, because of the way the UK grid is regulated, that doesn't mean people in Scotland pay less for electricity than those living in the south, so we put up with some of the negative impacts but don't see all the direct benefits.

There is some resistance to the locating of new windfarms, along with the power lines to support them, but nothing like the hysteria Trump's expressed about their defiling the views from his golf courses.

His insane hatred of wind power in the US may be traceable to his humiliating protracted defeat when he challenged the construction of a sea-based wind farm that would be barely visible with the naked eye from his course at Menie on the Aberdeenshire coast:

How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle

"I am the evidence," was the eyebrow-raising comment made by Donald Trump when he appeared before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

He was speaking as an "expert" witness on green energy targets, describing how he believed wind turbines were damaging tourism in Scotland.

Five years before he first became US president, it was one of his earliest interventions on renewable energy - but since then his opposition to them has grown to become government policy in the world's biggest economy.

He was objecting to 11 turbines which were planned - and ultimately constructed - alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course.
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Trump battled the plans through the Scottish courts, then appealed to the UK's Supreme Court - but he was unable to stop the "monsters" from going ahead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo

The UK's Labour government, like other recent UK governments before it, is pressuring Scotland to allow the building of new nuclear power stations as its ageing nuclear plants near decommissioning. The SNP-led government in Holyrood has long opposed this as ecologically perilous and unnecessary given that Scotland already more than meets its own needs. The innumerable problems, delays and vast cost escalations encountered in building the new nuclear power station Hinkley Point C in Somerset in England haven't helped the UK government's case.

Anyone interested in how the loads on the UK electricity grid work can view the proportions from various sources in use in real time at https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

The smaller dials in the second row on the right show the two-way interconnector contributions via a network of cables linking the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and other locations on the Continent. The flows will vary dynamically depending on which source has a surplus at any time and the spot price of electricity from that source.