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August 28, 2008

A Decentralised Approach To Wind Power May Be One Way Of Moving Away From A Dependency On Fossil Fuels

By David Bamford

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has recently summarized the UK Government’s reasoning concerning Wind Power thus: “Britain faces an energy gap of up 32 GW by 2015 as older coal and nuclear power stations are paid off. At the same time, Britain has made a binding commitment to deliver 15% of all its energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2020. Government policy is based on using wind power both to help close the energy gap and to meet its renewable energy targets.

If the Government is to meet its renewables target, then the amount of electricity to be generated by wind farms will have to increase by more than 20 times. For more on this, see the CPS website, under “Wind Chill”. Wind Power has been much in the press recently with our august Prime Minister  reported, on 26th June, as saying that central to the government's consultation on how to meet its renewable energy...