off shore wind farm at burbo bank uk
With the newly opened 30 turbine wind farm at Gunfleet off the Essex coast going into production this week the UK will be producing enough wind powered energy to serve all of London south of the Thames it has been claimed.
The UK will be producing four gigawatts of energy from wind powered turbines, putting Britain firmly on track to meet green energy targets which had been widely considered to be over ambitious.
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) CEO Maria McCafferty says;
“We are on track to hit the target of 10% of energy in the UK coming from renewables by 2010, and with the very large capacity offshore schemes coming in from 2015, we should get to the target of 30GW of wind by 2020.”
Harnessing power from the wind has long been considered to be a sensible and sustainable proposition for the UK, but it took fourteen years to install the first 1GW and a further four years to increase that to 4GW.
The UK will have 6GW production through wind farms by the end of 2010 and the BWEA says that with 2GW of other renewable energy capacity means that 10% of the country’s power will be produced by green energy.
Further more say the BWEA, If all the wind farms currently in construction or with planning are built according to plan, by 2012 there will be 12GW of installed wind capacity meaning the UK will be generating more electricity from wind than nuclear.
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