UK Announces Plan For Offshore Wind Generators to Provide Enough Electricity to Power all Homes in the UK by 2020

Harnessing the vast potential of the UK's island status entered a new phase as Energy Secretary John Hutton announced proposals to open up its seas to up to 33GW (gigawatts) of offshore wind energy. He also announced that he will chair a panel of experts to advise him on renewable energy, underscoring the UK Government's determination to play its part in meeting the EU target of 20% renewable energy by 2020 [Click here to read full article...]

Tilting at Windmills

The Economist always has fantastic articles. I went back to pull up one of their articles from their cleantech issue last fall, and thought I would repost the link to their article on wind power.

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