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15 January 2010
A few eyebrows were raised last week when the Crown Estate announced the location of its press conference about the winners of the third round of bidding for offshore wind sites.
The event was due to be held in Exeter, quite a way geographically from where most of the successful sites are to be found off the British coast.
In the event, the Crown Estate announced that "due to the weather conditions" the venue would be changed to Millbank Tower in Westminster, central London.
There were audible sighs of relief from the mainly London-based journos, who had not been best pleased about having to flog down to Devon to hear the news.
Well, Utility Week can reveal that the bad weather only indirectly caused the switch of venues. You see, the reason Exeter was chosen in the first place was because the government was due to hold a cabinet meeting in that city last Thursday, and a certain Mr Gordon Brown was due to make a "surprise" appearance at the Crown Estate's press conference. It was set up as a photo opportunity for our PM, keen to demonstrate his green credentials.
In the event, it was decided that travelling to the southwest for a cabinet meeting would send the wrong signals as the nation's transport system seized up in the cold snap.
With our leader staying put in the capital it was decided to move the press conference to a new venue in London.
So now you know.
Tags: electricity generation, politics, renewables, wind
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