Wind farms in Pacific Northwest paid to not produce

Cowboy Byte  "Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year."  Hat tip to Tom Williams; Merced, Ca.

This is a good place to stick an appropriate perennial favorite: