Power struggle

Can Reform Scotland (your report, 12 December) answer a simple question?

Where will the electricity come from when there is no wind, or when the wind is not at the correct speed?

According to past records given out by the energy regulator, wind turbines only produce electricity about 25 per cent of the time. Some common sense is required in this debate!

(Dr) Gordon Cochrane

Dargai Terrace

Dunblane

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Niall Stuart of Scottish Renewables keeps peddling the myth that onshore wind (power) is “already cheaper than nuclear” (Perspective, 12 December).

Only in May this year, the UK’s Committee on Climate Change reported that nuclear power appears likely to be the lowest-cost low-carbon technology. It regarded onshore wind as merely being “close to competitive”.

The committee estimated that, by 2030 and at its preferred discount rate of 10 per cent, onshore wind would cost between 7-8.5 p/kWh, while nuclear would vary from 5-10 p.

In other words, by that year, some nuclear would still be cheaper than onshore wind.

Steuart Campbell

Dovecot Loan

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