26,400 turbines to wean Britain off its carbon habit
By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent
Revolutionary plans for a massive expansion of offshore wind farms have been unveiled in a £100bn project designed to usher in a new era of green energy for Britain.
A quarter of the country's electricity needs would be met through wind power by 2020 under the strategy, with the construction of 6,400 turbines within nine sites dotted around the coast. The programme amounts to the biggest energy supply shake-up since the discovery of the North Sea oil and gas fields more than 40 years ago.
Wind power can easily replace 40% of Coal, Oil, Gas and Nuclear for electricity generation in the UK. Wind expert David Milborrow shares his 30 year of experience in grid integration and penetration of wind resources and all variability associated with electricity grid supply and demand. David Millborrow in conversation with Matthew Wright of Beyond Zero Emissions.
A new study claims that there is 16 to 20 times more wind power avaiability in the USA than is needed to generate all the electricity used, says Michael Goggin of the American Wind Energy Association.
Faster and faster, renewable energy from wind power is becoming a means to global conservation. By 2020, 1500 Gigawatts of Wind energy capacity will be installed worldwide estimates Heinz Dahl of the World Wind Energy Association, and wind capacity could go much further than that still! Heinz also discusses the use of hydro and geothermal power to firm up wind power generation, and a new project in the U.S.
