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Onshore wind is cheap and popular, the government needs to catch up

Posted on 11 February, 2019 by Green Alliance blog One comment

This post is by Sarah James, a volunteer and trustee of Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust.

I’ve shown a lot of people around Westmill Wind Farm in Oxfordshire and its neighbouring solar farm. Thousands of people have visited the wind farm for tours and open days in its ten year life, wanting not just to see the wind turbines, but to get up close and touch them, hear them and sometimes even lie under them, watching the blades whirl overhead.

The media and politicians have described onshore wind as controversial and unpopular in the UK. And yet our experience at Westmill is quite the opposite. It is a popular local asset that people like to visit, are curious to understand and view affectionately. Is there some reason that Westmill is unusual? Read more

It’s time to bring onshore wind back to England

Posted on 8 January, 2019 by Green Alliance blog 2 comments

This post is by Rebecca Windemer, PhD researcher at Cardiff University.

At the start of my research into wind energy, I met an elderly couple living opposite a wind farm in Cornwall who questioned why people were opposed to them. Read more

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How clean or green is wind power? Setting the record straight

Posted on 19 May, 2017 by Chaitanya Kumar 2 comments

A recent article in the Spectator, by Matt Ridley, has challenged the importance of wind energy in the national and global energy mix, dismissing it as irrelevant and saying that it causes greater environmental damage than we are willing to acknowledge. Read more

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Gone with the wind? Has £18 billion of offshore wind investment vanished forever?

Posted on 5 December, 2013 by Julian Morgan 2 comments

While people were digesting the announcement of the latest strike prices for renewable energy, the Treasury was also releasing its latest update of the infrastructure pipeline. This reported substantially lower spending on investment in offshore wind energy up to 2020, partly compensated by higher expected investment in onshore wind. Seen against the background of the substantial cut in the pipeline of offshore wind projects, the decision to provide relatively more support for this form of renewable energy makes sense.