For anyone building a wind farm, it might seem an unnecessary piece of advice - put it somewhere windy.
Astonishingly, however, many turbines are going up on sites which are simply not breezy enough, energy consultants have claimed.
They say farms are being built in the "wrong places" because of the pressure to hit Government targets in the race to produce green energy.
But the "badly sited and underperforming" turbines are not reliable enough to keep the nation's television sets, toasters and lights switched on.
Michael Jefferson, an independent engineering consultant and former economist for Shell, said the industry often exaggerated the amount of energy each farm would supply....
From: This is London
