Expensive Green Policies

It appears now that building wind farms is not a very cost effective way of providing sustainable and environmentally friendly energy. The trouble is that wind sometimes blows and sometimes does not so electricity suppliers need to operate reserve generation and taking that into account wind energy becomes very expensive. Apparently, building energy-efficient houses saves more energy and money.

However, no one seems to care. We will continue to build expensive wind farms and energy inefficient homes. Thank you, Government, for failing to come up with a piece of legislation that would actually make a lot of sense - a legislation specifying energy rated homes.

Makes one wonder if a similar study will appear in a couple of years to show wasting money on complying with Kyoto was daft. Psssst! Some of us already suspect so.