Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Offshore wind farms to see huge increase

LONDON (AP) — Britain unveiled plans Monday to generate enough electricity through offshore wind farms to power every home in the country by 2020, increasing production more than 60-fold and changing the look of its coastlines.

Britain’s wind-swept coasts and shallow waters are ideal for offshore turbines, but windgenerated power currently accounts for less than 2 percent of its energy generation.

Business secretary John Hutton said the government planned to reach the target through a fourfold increase in the amount of space off Britain’s shores allocated for wind farms.

The move would change Britain’s coasts, Hutton acknowledged, but said the need for energy self-sufficiency left the country no choice. He said the plans would depend on environmental impact studies.

“But if we could manage to achieve this, by 2020 enough electricity could be generated off our shores to power the equivalent of all of the U.K.’! s homes,” Hutton said.


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