On Twitter, he unleashed his wisdom on his followers (now numbering more than half a million) to say "let's stop wasting money on ridiculous windmills", "stop wasting billions on windfarms now!" and describing turbines as "uneconomic ugly bird killing windmills".
In the Conservatives' manifesto, they made concrete a proposal that was floated last year: there will be no more public subsidy for onshore windfarms, and they will "change the law so that local people have the final say on windfarm applications".
Alexander Temerko, the Ukrainian-born chairman of the Newcastle-based Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN), an energy services group that builds foundations for windfarms and oil rig platforms, said the group mainly discussed how to make Britain a better place.
Related: Restricting onshore windfarms would be a costly policy decision There are, he adds, more applications to build wind turbines in the area arriving all the time.
Kaberuka has said climate change is one of the "greatest calamities" Africa faces, but he is encouraged by successful solar projects in Morocco and windfarms in Kenya.
Dogger has long been mooted as a possible location for offshore windfarms, because the shallow seabed, only about 30 metres deep, should make it easier to lay foundations and construct large turbines there, but no company has yet ventured into the area.
And with 70% of the public supporting onshore wind power, in whose interest is it to prevent well-located windfarms being built?" Be that as it may, wind turbines frequently inspire a special kind of wrath, especially in communities faced with the prospect of seeing them built on their doorsteps.
Plus, she says, there are benefits for villages such as Redwick that install turbines: "Onshore windfarms bring significant investment into local communities – on top of this RES windfarms offer an annual discount off the electricity bills of the nearest properties.
It showed nice things that Labour subsidised, like free fruit for schoolchildren and windfarms to produce renewable electricity and ended with the on-screen slogan: "Don't let anyone say we didn't make a difference".As thousands of party bigwigs and members in the hall cheered, clapped and stamped their feet, it occurred to me that the video precisely reversed an old line of Ronald Reagan's.
The Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary Ed Davey was today forced to publically rebuke his Conservative deputy for claiming that the Government would veto the development of more on-shore windfarms.
But the Government has made it difficult for new onshore windfarms to be built despite them offering the best way to meet ambitious climate targets in an affordable way.
