I BET Mr Rob Ellis (Citizen, March 26) does NOT live within 1,000m of a 100m high turbine, with a group of eight already extended by nine on adjoining land – and possibly seven more joining them.
Why did they commission an independent survey? The sole reason – to control it.
Does Mr Ellis tell you what you are paying towards wind farms? It has been calculated that each and every household in the UK is paying around £80 taxes a year on thei
r electricity bills in the form of three different levies.
The government has a very complex financial system in place based around the Renewals Obligation (RO), the Climate Change Levy exemption (CCLe) and Renewal Obligation certificates (ROCs)
The net effect of all this is to pay to the suppliers, three premiums on top of the wholesale of wind generated electricity, and some of this is already incorporated into our own electricity bills, whether on green tariff or not.
This hidden tax provides the largest subsidy in history to providers of renewable energy – an incentive which has brought multinational power companies flocking to our shores.
Remember the North Sea oil boom – have we seen a benefit in fuel prices?
Just one 2MW turbine could receive an annual subsidy of over £235,000.
Without Renewal Obligation certificates few developers would be building wind farms in the ELK.
Spain has abandoned this subsidy. Denmark has not built an onshore farm for four years.
Electricity from wind is not free.
The more windmills go up the more you will pay, mainly to foreign energy companies.
B WARBY,
Outwell.
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