Giant killers
I note Graham Bruce’s excellent “sleeping giants” letter of 13 January.
Garvary Wind Farm’s 37 turbines will indeed stop his wonderful view of golden eagles and ospreys. Just of late we had a spectacular view of the white tailed sea eagle majestically flying up the Kyle of Sutherland. Many winter migrating skeins of geese will also disappear, minced in the carbon fibre blades of Garvary Wind Farm.
Michael Baird, Bonar Bridge, Highland
Energy review
Brian Wilson’s article “Scots energy sector must be reviewed” (Sotsman, 15 January) is timely but needs to be a very wide review and include the GB energy sector.
Currently the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Ofgem have completed a consultation on “Proposals for an expert, impartial Future System Operator with responsibility for both the gas and electricity systems”. The result of this consultation has still to be published but on the basis of the consultation remit it is unlikely to provide transparency for all aspects of operational and generating costs in the sector. The problem is highlighted by Dr GM Lindsay’s letter (Letters, 15 January) where he raises the question of subsidies for wind, solar and biomass generators.
If he is correct in suggesting that the offshore wind subsidies to some plants is £100 per MWh the government should make clear that the tax payer is paying for some of the electricity price through taxation. If these subsidies are intended to reduce the price of electricity that consumers pay, it is not working, as the Wholesale Cost of Electricity is now at an all time high of £108.5 per MWh and the price of electricity is expected to increase in April 2022 by a substantial amount.
Taxpayers and consumers deserve better and it is time for the UK government to publish all relevant cost data for the energy sector. This data should include the effect of commercial borrowing repayments for infrastructure investments on both the Wholesale Cost and the Standard Price of Electricity.
It is a well established fact that government borrowing for infrastructure investments is the most economic method and the UK government should explain why this is not being used in the energy sector.
C Scott, Edinburgh

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