All fine and dandy when the wind blows, but in freezing cold weather like now, which is invariably accompanied by still windless conditions, it is currently only capable of providing us with 3% of the power we need gridwatch.co.uk/ .
If we are going to be carbon neutral in the next few decades, we need to reduce our reliance on wind power and develop other more reliable sources of carbon neutral power production; hydro power, tidal and wave power. These sources of power are all running commercially on a small scale in this country, but we should be focussing on these sources of power that come far closer to running 24/7 in all weathers than wind power can possibly do.
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