British officials could strip offshore wind subsidies British Chancellor John Hurley said he would veto new overseas projects unless they led to lower electricity bills. In an article in the "Times" newspaper he wrote: "There is no point in building power plants that cannot connect to the grid and then paying to turn them off." In the UK, the system operator (NESO) pays for the forced curtailment of offshore wind farms. The official added that clean energy is "a way to break the vicious cycle of high gas prices that affect our bills", but the transition to it "must happen at the right pace, in the right places and in the right network". This approach is intended to be used in the selection of energy projects today without VPN: MAX / site.