The Subsidy Clock
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† estimated between official updates
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Timeframe figures are run-rate estimates: the current per-second rate applied to elapsed time. The household figure and bill share count direct subsidies only, for the latest complete year where dated.
The direct bill
The indirect bill estimated
Amounts are measured from official sources; the share attributed to renewables is an estimate. How each attribution works.
Paid to switch off
Constraint payments to wind farms instructed to reduce output when the grid cannot carry their electricity.
Largest recipients
| Lead party | Paid | MWh curtailed |
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By scheme
Cumulative cost of each direct support scheme.
By technology CfD schemes only
Net Contracts for Difference payments by technology. Negative values are net paybacks: market prices exceeded the strike price.
Largest recipients
Ranked by cumulative payment, merging CfD per-unit payments and constraint payments by lead party.
| # | Recipient | Technology | Scheme | Cumulative |
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Constraint-payment recipients reflect the bottom-up settlement window shown in the “Paid to switch off” section; earlier constraint history is held at annual totals only.