Gamesa has been eerily quiet since confirming a year agothat it intended to build a €150m (£127m) manufacturing facility foroffshore blades and nacelles at Leith on Edinburgh’s north coast. Did thisvisit indicate that the Spanish were about to set the chorizo on fire andfinally shift their euros out of the mañana category?

Sadly not. My spies say that the main purpose of thevisit was for Ignacio Martín, the newish executive chairman, to press someflesh and address the Scottish Renewables conference.