Climate change and the case for funding energy-efficiency schemes | Letters

I agree with much of your first comment on climate change (Editorial, 23 July). However, I would like to expand upon the observation that "just like fracking and nuclear, greening the energy supply needs intervention". The question is: what is a reasonably sensible subsidy to provide energy technologies, especially those that generate electricity?

You report in the same edition of the Guardian (Government to cut solar power subsidies saving customers 50p per year) that the discontinuation of solar subsides will save customers a trivial amount off their annual energy bills, but will simultaneously devastate a fast-growing, but still young, sustainable energy sector.