UK now leader in offshore wind energy

23 Oct 2008 | Author: Jeanette Wiemers, newsbriefs editor | Print version | Send to a friend

Nearly 600MW of fully constructed wind power projects put UK past Denmark to top spot

The UK has now surpassed Denmark as the country leading the world in production of offshore wind energy, said Mike O’Brien, a minister in the UK’s new Department of Energy and Climate Change. With the completion of Centrica’s Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms 5km off the Lincolnshire coast, the UK now has 579MW fully constructed—enough to power around 300,000 homes—and should add another 938 megawatts by the end of next year through new construction of five more wind farms.

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