Too smart?

Energy watchdog Ofgem is considering plans by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) that would allow distributors to ask homeowners for permission to temporarily turn off highenergy appliances.

They can only do this in households where the occupier was naive enough to install a smart meter. This situation has a risen because distributors fear that the switch to green technologies will put pressure on the National Grid. This will get worse when gas is banned and households are forced to use four times more expensive electricity.

Smart meters were j us tified on the grounds that they would help save electricity, but we can now see that it is all about control to try to avoid imminent black-outs caused by the wind industry, which suck sin grants, constraint payments and subsidies and spits out unreliable expensive electricity.

CLARK CROSS

Springfield Road, Linlithgow

I am sitting opposite the Rosehall and Achany wind farms near Lairg in Sutherland. It is 21 degrees Centigrade and in an area of high pressure none of the turbines are turning.

Once again these wind farms will be getting constraint payments. At the moment from June this year (the last updated figures available) £64 million has been paid out.

Meall Buid he wind farm near Ardgay in Sutherland is in planning, as is Lairg 2 and Sallachy. I cannot understand the reasoning why we want to keep paying more constraint payments.

Can someone please reply as to why this SNP Government thinks that we need more wind farms?

MICHAEL BAIRD

Dornoch Road, Bonar Bridge