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Wind energy growing fast in UK

Industry on target to deliver a third of power supply within a decade Bradford Telegraph and Argus) (UK)  31st December Wind power is now providing nearly half or the UK’s renewable electricity and the country is on the verge of having ten per cent of its electricity generated from renewable sources.New government figures show that in the third quarter of 2010, the UK derived its biggest-ever level of energy supplies from renewable sources, including 8.6 per cent of electricity.

The statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change also show that the contribution from wind power has risen by 37 per cent compared to same quarter in 2009. RenewableUK, the country’s leading renewable energy trade association, said that wind now supplies just under half of all renewable electricity in the UK, making it the nation’s leading renewable technology in terms of actual units delivered to the grid……..

Industry on target to deliver a third of power supply within a decade (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

January 1, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, UK