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As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.

I accept that the clause would not affect the planning controls. What worries me is that it is entitled ““Promotion of community energy schemes””, and the scheme that I have described is precisely the kind that the Government would have a duty to promote if the Secretary of State thought fit. It is absurd to suggest that wind turbines would have to be 20 times as large in order to generate 20 times as much as 1.4MW. I am envisaging, say, 20 1.4MW turbines, which would constitute a gross intrusion on any community. The Minister mentioned biomass. We do not need those excessive limits even for biomass. According to a helpful written answer published on 10 February 2005, the total output from the 11 biomass power plants operating in this country amounted to only just over 100MW. There is no need for such high limits to accommodate one biomass plant. I fear that we are talking not about community schemes, but about enormous schemes.