Wind fail
The Scotsman editorial of 20 June on “the energy challenge ahead” fails to address the fact that currently 75 per cent of consumer energy is obtained from gas, which is four times cheaper than that from any onshore windmill. That means a ban on domestic gas will result in a massive increase in household bills – a fact that is never addressed by Holyrood politicians.
A second problem ignored by the media is that if the wind fails to blow then increasing the current 13GW of windmill capacity to 58GW is irrelevant as there would still be no output for the consumer! That is the reason the SNP proposes to build an additional 25GW of gas turbine units to keep the lights on in Scotland at enormous cost to the consumer – so much for the claim that “onshore windmills produce the cheapest electricity”. Why is there no debate over scrapping inefficient, unreliable windmills that fail to deliver affordable energy for the Scottish consumer?
Ian Moir, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway
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