Cost of wind
On closer inspection it appears there was a moment on 19 October when wind supplied 25 per cent of our electricity.
However, demand was not particularly high when it happened at around 5:30am. What an outcry there would be if conventional power stations reported that, as an unusual occurrence, coal, gas or nuclear managed to scrape together a quarter of our energy needs for the briefest moment of time when most of us were asleep.
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Hide AdThe wind supporters never hold their hands up when wind is performing at way below the expected and the promised levels – which is more often than not. The begging bowl is out and without the merest mention of fuel poverty and how the renewables subsidies are funded by the poorest in our society, an already highly subsidised sector is saying: “Please sir, can I have some more.”
Lyndsey Ward
Beauly
Inverness-shire