SIR Sally Clifford's account (T&A, May 4) of the part played by Bradford companies in developing technology for renewable energy is encouraging.

It is just a pity that local politicians can't match the innovation of neighbouring councils and so support local endeavour.

Kirklees has hundreds of council houses with solar panels, and the Ovenden Moor wind turbines are in Calderdale, not Bradford.

We have some toy turbines on bus shelters in Manchester Road, a number of rotary turbines on the flats with what looks like solar panels but is just decorative panelling, and some very small scale photo-voltaic cells on the central library.

We could certainly be doing more than this.

Keith Thomson, Heights Lane, Bradford