SIR — In response to R Growden's plea over what is an acceptable form of power generation (Your Letters February 14), one of the obvious answers must be all types of hydro electric schemes, which for some political reason or other appear to have gone out of fashion.

These could be designed to serve local communities in the same way mills along rivers were used in the past.

Visit a fine example in Lynmouth - the Glen Lyn Gorge Hydro Electric Scheme - highly recommended for an insight into civil engineering schemes producing "clean" electricity.

Larger schemes designed for national usage can still be found in Britain's more mountainous regions, such as the Cruachan Power Station on Loch Awe in Scotland.

One resource that Great Britain does have plenty of is water, and this should be utilised in a far more effective way to satisfy the country's demand for electricity.

I always felt it was a matter of some concern that the local reservoirs and their dams, Clatworthy and Wimbleball, were constructed without electricity-producing turbines included.

Cliance Godwin,

Lower Washford.