YOU provide a large package on green energy adjacent to ScottishPower’s
proud advert as a “totally green” producer of electricity (The Herald, July
23). Readers should know that when I read this advert, Scotland was
importing 600MW from England because wind output was negligible, the
balance of Scotland’s demand being met by Hunterston and Torness nuclear
power stations. Even across the whole UK wind was supplying less than one
per cent of Britain’s electrical energy needs. The demand was being met
from gas, nuclear, nuclear imports from France and surprisingly, even coal.
This is not an exceptional occurrence either. The negligible contribution
from wind and has been replicated many times over the past months.
Wind can make a contribution and when it blows it is a truly green source,
but what this tells is an age-old truth, “don’t have all your eggs in one
basket”. I leave readers to contemplate what happens when Hunterston and
Torness are decommissioned.
Norman McNab, Killearn.
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