But, equally, I voted for this mainly because I want there to be more nuclear power provided in the future – more in the UK – because I am sick to death of seeing windmills and wind turbines pop up across beautiful parts of the European countryside, which add nothing to any of our national grids – in fact they cause extra harm to the national grids – and do not provide renewable energy: they just provide a slightly alternative energy for a short period of time.

I recently received a very interesting proposal concerning super-grids that bring together many offshore wind farms.

44. Notes that the development of wind energy in a few European countries has been impressive with more than 34 600 MW installed at the end of 2004, thus outperforming all predictions, and calls for further research to solve problems relating to the regulation of energy and network stability; notes that the installation of wind power plants should be done in an intelligent way, so that the problems felt by the population in the affected areas are limited; regrets that the full potential of biomass electricity production has not been developed as expected; welcomes in this respect the Commission's announcement of a Biomass Action Plan; ...[+++]

One of the reasons it is difficult for renewable technologies to compete — and I keep going back to wind, but it is certainly not the only technology — is because our existing infrastructure was set up to service our existing systems.