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United Kingdom: Wind farm subsidies cut by 25 per cent
2013-07-14 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The decision will delight anti-wind farm campaigners and back-bench Conservative MPs who have sought a cut to curtail the construction of turbines. But the wind power industry said the measure would leave billions of pounds of investment and thousands of jobs "hanging in the balance' and pointed to David Cameron's promise that his government would be the greenest ever. Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, will announce the cut in subsidies for new wind farms as part of a radical...
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United Kingdom: World's biggest offshore wind farm with 300 turbines will be built in Lincolnshire
2013-07-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Work on the massive Triton Knoll site - 288 giant wind turbines off the Lincolnshire coast - can now begin after the 3.6bn project was given the go ahead. It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility, the 175-turbine London Array in the Thames Estuary unveiled last week by David Cameron. Go-ahead: An offshore wind farm off the coast of Skegness in Lincolnshire When complete, the new giant windfarm will generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power for 820,000 homes....
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United Kingdom: Burning wood is not the solution to climate change
2013-07-05 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: So far, five UK coal-fired power stations have announced plans to convert, either partly or completely, to biomass. These are Tilbury in Essex, Ironbridge in Shropshire, Eggborough and Drax in Yorkshire, and Lynemouth in Northumberland. Between them these power stations will require almost six times as much wood as the UK produces in total every year. That statistic alone shows just how unsustainable wood-fired power stations are and it spells disaster for the world's natural habitats, human rights,...
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United Kingdom: World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Goes Live
2013-07-04 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The London Array wind power project in the United Kingdom became the worlds largest offshore wind farm on Thursday. The fleet of 175 wind turbines stationed in the salty waters of the outer Thames estuary, where the river Thames empties into the North Sea, boasts a nameplate capacity of 630 megawatts, which is enough to power nearly half a million homes. Previously, the worlds largest offshore wind farm was the 500 MW Greater Gabbard wind power facility off the coast of East Anglia. The...
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United Kingdom: World's largest offshore windfarm opens in Thames estuary
2013-07-04 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With enough capacity to power two-thirds of the homes in Kent, the set of 175 turbines rising out of the Thames estuary officially became the largest offshore windfarm in the world on Thursday. David Cameron was on hand to cut the ribbon on the London Array, a massive renewable energy project, in a move that industry sources hoped would herald renewed enthusiasm from the government for renewable power after the animosity to windfarms on the Tory backbenches. "This is a great day for Britain...
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