IN our poor economic climate, there are encouraging signs that Navitus Bay will never be built because the country simply cannot afford this sort of scheme.

The long-running lack of a credible national energy policy is finally leading us to a crisis.

Awareness is rising that low-cost coal and nuclear stations are closing without replacement.

Panic levels are clearly growing at government level about the future energy gap and whether we can keep the lights on.

At the same time, it is increasingly obvious that wind power has three big problems apart from its unpopularity with voters – it produces very little electricity, it is unreliable and it remains hugely expensive for the taxpayer.

And all for nothing as world CO2 rises relentlessly during the current 23-year global temperature standstill.

EU leaders now want affordability rather than green policies whilst investors are getting ever-colder feet because they know huge subsidies are essential to any wind farm.

An energy conference has been looking at the ‘grand green design’ and asking who is going to pay for it all?

The one credible answer from a leading energy sector analyst was ‘nobody because it is doomed as too expensive’.

It is possible that wind subsidies will be dropped in favour of economical gas power.

W A HOODLESS, Harland Road, Bournemouth