How would you like the money? <a href=" http://oldbarnrescue.com/prevacid-complete-recall-2012.pdf ">printable prevacid coupon april 2012</a> Last week, when my colleague Richard North and I revealed the Government&rsquo;s &ldquo;secret weapon&rdquo; in the battle to provide back-up for when the wind isn&rsquo;t turning the tens of thousands of useless wind turbines it hopes to see built, we had no idea what a huge story this is turning out to be. Under its STOR (Short Term Operating Reserve) scheme, the National Grid has been signing up, at vast expense, thousands of diesel-driven stand-by generators to provide instantly available power to &ldquo;balance the grid&rdquo; when the wind isn&rsquo;t blowing. But so huge are the sums the grid is offering to make this power available that hundreds of canny investors have seen that this is one of the great money-making rackets of our time. In old industrial sites, quarries and supermarket premises all over the country they are piling in to install dedicated &ldquo;generator parks&rdquo;, capable of producing up to 100 megawatts (MW), in return for &ldquo;availability payments&rdquo; of up to £47,000 a year for each MW of their capacity. They then receive additional payment for the amount of electricity they actually feed to the grid, giving them an equivalent of £600 for each MW hour supplied &ndash; 12 times the going market rate. Before long STOR alone will be adding five per cent, or £1&thinsp;billion a year, to our electricity bills. Yet no one involved wants to talk about it. This is a scam so colossal that it makes the owners of those useless wind farms, who get subsidies of 100 or 150 per cent, seem miserably underpaid.