The UK has the most potential for wind power out of all the European countries – we have a lot of it apparently. This was not an off-the-cuff remark made by a Eurocrat in Brussells but a fact made by experts in the renewable energy field – wind and wave. The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) exhibition in Glasgow takes place next week (9-11 October). The contrast with Power Expo, running the same week, at the other end of the UK at Olympia London, could not be greater. Here you have a new technology that is only as yet being deployed on a large scale. We have yet to see wind turbines deployed en masse from B&Q to our homes but someday it could happen. I am reminded of the early satellite TV dishes which were normally so large you placed them on a concrete platform in your garden – today they are small, discreet and very much common place.