Free electricity, anyone?

Wind turbines operated by Octopus. The country’s biggest electricity supplier runs nine wind turbines on the hills in Grimsby, England. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

WERE Heathcliff to roam the blustery moors around Wuthering Heights today, he might be interrupted by a ping on his cellphone saying something like this: The wind is raging, so power is cheap. It’s a good time to plug in the car.

Okay, so the 18th century literary occupants of these windswept hills received no such pings.