Wind hits 4GW barrier – now powers 2.3 million homes in UK
The UK wind industry has now hit 4GW of installed capacity.
The UK sector now powers the equivalent of Scotland’s household needs, or 2.3 million homes.
The milestone was broken by the final commissioning of three wind farms – the EDF Energy Renewables 38MW Longpark, Scottish Power Renewables 30MW Dun Law extension and the first phase of Dong Energy’s 173MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. There are over 12GW of wind schemes either operational, being built or already with planning permission. When this pipeline of projects is built out in 2012, wind energy will have overtaken nuclear in installed capacity.
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