HC Deb 10 March 1989 vol 148 c84W
37. Mr. Speller

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will visit the wind generator at Ilfracombe and the hydro-electric plant at Lynton.

Mr. Michael Spicer

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no immediate plans to visit the installations. The wind generator at Ilfracombe was inaugurated by the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy in 1985. The current Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Baroness Hooper, visited an updated version of the machine last year when she opened the Central Electricity Generating Board's wind energy demonstration centre at Carmarthen bay. My Department is taking note of the performance of the hydro-electric plant at Lynton which is, we understand, functioning satisfactorily.