Use your power don’t export it.

I read an article today on the BBC website, regarding a comment by UK energy minister Lord Hunt. He was responding to call from the Scottish government stating that the costs for putting electricity into the national grid are unfair towards them. The charge is calculated based on the size of the power station and the distance from large populated areas.
Scotland has a long history of using renewable energy to drive its industry, dating back to the days of pre-electricity hydro powered textile mills. I feel that there is an opportunity here, why don’t they make use of their surplus instead of being penalised by the cost of exporting it to the south. I think this is a great opportunity to incentify the development and operation of green data centres. I understand that it’s cheaper supplying bandwidth to a data centre located in Scotland than to supply Scottish power to a green data centre in London.