LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Renewables cash to spearhead investment in public sector 

Wind turbine projects on public sites like hospitals and council houses will receive a £10m funding boost as part of the Government’s efforts to open up the ‘largely untapped’ public sector to the renewables industry, the environment secretary said on Wednesday.

The scheme will see up to half a billion pounds invested in onsite renewables, mostly wind turbines

Defra wants to see 500MW worth of onsite renewables installed on public land through the Carbon Trust “Partnership for Renewables” scheme, which will work with public bodies as well as the private sector to provide funding for the initial stages of project development and management.

Wind energy expansion on this scale would bring Britain’s wind energy generating capacity up by 25%, Defra calculates.

With the £10m cash injection the Government hopes to unleash up to £500m of private sector investment over five years, mostly going towards the installation of 3 – 5MW wind turbines.

The public sector is responsible for 5% of the UK’s carbon emissions, but renewable projects on public land only account for 0.1% of the UK’s current renewables production, according to the Carbon Trust.

Announcing the scheme on Wednesday, environment minister David Milliband said: “500 megawatts of renewable energy is enough to serve the houses of Exeter, Oxford and Norwich and Newcastle combined – that’s the equivalent of 250,000 houses at zero carbon cost to the environment.

“The Carbon Trust has shown how plans for renewable installations, mainly wind power, on the land of local authorities and hospitals can be held back because public and private investment are not working together.

Carbon Trust CEO Tom Delay said that this public-private scheme will be “further proof that there are business solutions to climate change.”

“Our aim is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy and PfR is an important step towards that goal,” he said.

The British wind industry welcomed the announcement, saying it opens up many opportunities for the onshore wind industry.

Maria McCaffery, chief executive of the British Wind Energy Association, said: “There are many good examples of wind energy already developed on public sector land, at schools, hospitals and council buildings, and Partnerships for Renewables, aided by Defra’s support, will catalyse further development of this exciting new sector.”

Goska Romanowicz

edie.net

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon