Sir,

Wouldn't it be great to think that the profits from a wind turbine are available to local community associations, groups or individuals to carry out such works as solar panels or photovoltaics on village halls, improving insulation in the home of a pensioner living in fuel poverty, being able to start an allotment group or organising a luncheon club for senior citizens. Currently they go to land owners or shareholders - mainly overseas. This is the vision we see as a way that communities can benefit from a resource (wind) that Pembrokeshire has in abundance.

I appreciate that some people do not like seeing wind turbines and I would not seek to change their views. However, those of us that either strongly favour or tend to favour them stood at 66 per cent in a poll taken in April 2012. The strongly oppose or tend to oppose came in at eight per cent. Comfort to the silent majority.

Ofgem report 2010/11 stated that: Onshore wind added less than £5 to household bills whilst rising cost of gas added £120 to energy bills last year. The Right Honourable Edward Davey MP (Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change) stated in a letter to the Sunday Times 09/03/12 that 'Onshore wind is getting cheaper: the gap between onshore and gas generated electricity costs has halved in just five years. It could be cost comparative with fossil fuels in four'.

National Grid has stated that there is 'no immediate technical reason why a large portfolio of wind generation can not be managed by the (National Grid) balancing timescales'.

There are many positive ways to describe our hope that money generated in South East Pembrokeshire can be used for the benefit of people here - one is 'about time'.

Janet Roberts,

Secretary,

Pembrokeshire South East Energy Group.