Committee on Climate Change stresses need of financial base for scale-up of UK wind power capacity to 15GW by 2020
At the core of the John Hayes intervention on wind turbines was his claim that "even if a minority of [the onshore wind] in the system is built we are going to reach our 2020 target [on renewable energy, to provide 15% of UK energy from renewable sources]".
UK wind energy statistics seem to support this. In its renewables roadmap, the government predicts that onshore wind could provide up to 13GW of peak capacity by 2020.
See full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/31/onshore-wind-planning-benefits-climate
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