Whilst Giles Chichester MEP?(Letters February 16) is correct to say wind power is subsidised he fails to mention the massive subsidies other forms of power generation receive. 

Take nuclear power, which he appears to be promoting.

The established nuclear industry will not build any power station without first being indemnified by Government in respect of the costs of cleaning up their highly dangerous waste products and also for the cost implications if one of their reactors went into meltdown, liabilities that would render the industry utterly uneconomic.

Companies that build coal and gas fired power stations receive tax breaks and so the list goes on.

The fact is that power generation is too essential to our way of life for it not be subsidised because the real costs would cause electoral upheaval if we had to pay them in our energy bills, so instead it is hidden, paid as it is through our taxes.

Dave Goodwin

Sticklepath