Government may be tilting at windmills with ambitious energy plan

If you drive east out of Los Angeles towards Palm Springs, you cross a vast desert. It is arid. It is monotonous.

But the monotony does not come as much from the dusty wastes as from the thousands of windmills that fill the landscape for mile after mile.

By 2020, if the Government’s blueprint on energy achieves its targets, Ireland will have more windmills than Don Quixote could hope to tilt at in a lifetime.