Last week’s column looked at the case for generating our own capacity in offshore wind. The argument was that we have a natural resource we can learn to exploit ourselves or contract others to exploit for us, or not exploit at all. Climate change targets mean the last option isn’t really a runner. I want to make a very strong argument for the second option.  The state paying giant firms to come and exploit our resources for us feels like a re-run of previous mistakes in industrial policy. I go through them in the previous piece but tl;dr, there are…

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