Wind power comes at a very high price

RECENTLY you reported that the Spirit of Ireland group was planning an enormous investment in pumped storage solutions to back up the wind energy industry by storing off-peak electricity generated by wind turbines and releasing it at times of peak demand.

Their incredibly ambitious scheme envisages complete energy independence in as little as five years.

It needs to be pointed out that electricity from wind energy is reckoned to be two or three times more expensive than nuclear power.