Sir – This past week saw the foolishness of demolishing Didcot Power Station.
During a becalmed period of weather, the National Grid found renewable wind energy insufficient and needed to call up alternative supplies.
Back-up gas and oil generators are both heavily subsidised and not very green.
With other power stations already closed and those awaiting such a fate it is becoming blatantly obvious that the security of our power supplies is playing second fiddle to an obsession to meet unrealistic renewable energy targets.
Terry Randall
Grove Street
Wantage
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