YOUR report warning that, following the closure of Longannet Power Station next year, we could be faced with up to one and a half days without light, including street lights, heat, hot food and so on next winter (“Experts in warning on power plant”, the Herald, November 23) comes as no surprise, despite SNP assurances some years back that wind turbines would replace and supplement conventional power supply sources. Obviously many people believed this spin along with all the other rhetoric and were happy to vote accordingly.

It is unbelievable that, faced with this scenario throughout the UK, the UK Government now plans to withdraw incentives encouraging domestic investment in green energy options and has done little to explore and develop energy storage to compliment such opportunities. With the lack of investment in adequate interconnector provisions, importing power from abroad or even from offshore is probably not an option.

Duncan Miller,

38 Middlemuir Road,

Lenzie.