Waste of energy

I saw the advertisement Nick Dekker referred to in his letter (8 June) and the obvious connection between the astronomic valuation and the consented wind turbines.

This is another consequence of the subsidy regime funded by British consumers that is lining the pockets of landowners and developers.

The problem I have with the suggestion to set up a government-owned wind farm development corporation is that instead of the landowners raking in the subsidy the government would, then squander the money, and the consumers would not be any better off.

Graham Lang

Ceres

Cupar, Fife

The European Union has rebranded gas as green energy and a low-carbon source of power.

That is a surprise but a welcome step change for an organisation which condemned all fossil fuels and supported renewables.

I suggest that the EU suddenly realised that the lights would eventually go out through a reliance on expensive and intermittent renewable technologies.

Perhaps it has read the report by Gordon Hughes, professor of economics at the University of Edinburgh, which makes alarming reading. He says that wind costs nine to ten times as much as a combined cycle gas.

This opens the door for shale gas, which offers a cheap and abundant source of energy both domestically and worldwide. In the US, shale gas has halved the cost of electricity, thus benefiting manufacturing companies as well as domestic and business consumers.

Unlike wind turbines, gas needs no subsidies.

Welcome to the “golden age for gas” and the death throes of the wind industry.

Let the “fracking” commence.

Clark Cross

Springfield Road

Linlithgow

Are the majority of people ever going to do something meaningful to tackle their own energy consumption, or will we forever be fighting over how best to produce it?

MORGAN ROSS

Dalkeith Road

Edinburgh