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Andy Dobson speaks on Politics Show
SPIRE's Professor Andrew Dobson appeared on BBC 1's Politics Show last weekend (27.02.11) in a debate with Bill Cash, MP, and David Kidney, ex-MP, about wind turbines. He suggested that renewable energy of all types now makes economic as well as environmental sense, due largely to the promotion of feed-in tariffs which guarantees premium prices for renewable energy fed back into the grid. As with all new technologies, competitive advantage goes to 'first movers', he argued, so opposition to wind turbines undermines the potential for the creation of a green manufacturing base in the Midlands and further afield.
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