We’re about to see a boom in wind power at sea and on land

There are very few characters left still tilting at windmills, argues Harry Cockburn

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza assess a fearsome enemy (Getty/Independent)

An army of gentle giants is assembling on horizons around Britain.

Wind turbines – thousands of them. Bigger, better, more efficient, and supporting ever more domestic jobs – this technology is on course to help pull the UK out of its last grim dependence on fossil fuel-fired electricity and set us on a path for an energy independent future.

Wind already supplies around a quarter of all the UK’s electricity. The total capacity of the UK’s windfarms is 10.5 gigawatts.