Today we are told that about four percent of the United Kingdom’s electricity is supplied by wind farms. We are told this by the Renewable Energy Centre who also tell us that the wind farms supply around 5GW of power; there are another 18GW of wind farms that are in the planning process and that there is potential to generate 49GW from wind energy, which is half the domestic power usage of the nation. (more…)
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