YOU pick up on the news of the new subsidies that may help remote locations
develop wind farms and quote the positive news, nationally, in terms of
renewables for the first quarter of this year (“Renewable energy boom
driven by £557m auctions”, The Herald, July 24). I wonder how the figures
read for Scotland where we hear of problems one associates with far-flung
places such as shut-down due to excessive wind speeds and the lack of any
means to convey excess output to needy consumers.
I would hope that subsidies are also being made available to upgrade
connector provision, to progress wind and wave power developments, to
develop various storage options to utilise excess production rather than
the taxpayer forking out to have turbines shut down at these times and last
but no means least the development of a further generation of turbines that
can take advantage of the stormy conditions that do often prevail in remote
locations, onshore and offshore. The blinkered political approach is no
benefit to the country as a whole.
I am confident there are plenty experts available to progress all of these
headings who must be supported. That would be a real commitment to renewables.
Duncan Miller,
38 Middlemuir Road, Lenzie.
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