THE LAST SOURCE of power to operate in the Bourne area was the gasworks which closed in 1957 but we now have new forms of energy springing up around the district to keep pace with the demand from other methods.

A week ago I took these two photographs a short distance from Dole Wood near Thurlby, just off the main A15 south of the town. It was a very clear morning and showed two forms of power generation just a few miles away with the wind farm at Deeping St. Nicholas and the gas fired power station at Spalding.

I worked in the electrical engineering field most of my life and am appalled at the way wind farms are blighting our landscape for so little gain of generating capacity which I do not consider to be particularly reliable.

The eight wind turbines at Deeping St Nicholas only produce two megawatts each, a total of 16 megawatts, whereas Spalding power station produces 860 megawatts and is totally reliably. It would therefore require over 400 turbines to give an output equivalent to that of Spalding, a comparison which is food for thought about the effect so many of these installations would have on the appearance of our countryside.