Climate change: Government deal to boost offshore wind
A deal confirmed between the UK government and the wind industry will ensure 30% of electricity comes from offshore wind by 2030.
It is the latest in a series of agreements with sectors of the economy that are likely to create jobs. That is because, for several years, government economists have foreseen a three-pronged energy policy by 2030.Civil servants have projected that 30% of electricity would come from offshore wind, 30% from nuclear and 30% from gas power stations fitted with technology to capture their carbon emissions and bury them.But plans to expand nuclear are foundering; indeed the UK may end up at worst with just one new nuclear station - at Hinkley - instead of the planned six.
John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said:"Now the government's plans for a fleet of new nuclear reactors has collapsed, it leaves Britain with a big energy gap in future.“Wind and solar must be tripled between now and 2030, with offshore wind the future backbone of the UK's energy system.”
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