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33GW by 2020
As a deal is being drawn out in Bali at the United Nations Climate Change Conference by nations of the world, with Ban Ki-moon flying in to help broker a binding deal between all parties. Currently the EU are seeking binding targets for 25 - 40% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020. With US, Canada and Japan, seeking to implement policy in place of binding targets as a way of reducing emissions.
One way that has been touted this week by the secretary of state for energy, John Hutton for the United Kindom to meet a substainial reduction target by 2020 was to build 7000 offshore wind turbines around the coast, or one for every half mile of coast line.
"There is the potential, we believe, out there, using the resources that there are around the UK to generate maybe all of the electricity that households need ... from offshore wind sources. We should see whether we can maximise that potential because it's obviously in the nation's interest, in the world's interest, for us to make sure that more of our energy comes from clean sources."
Currently the UK has an installed capacity of 2.2GW, with a further 5.8GW potentially coming online before 2014, including the 1GW Atlantic Array, which is set to be the worlds largest wind farm. The British Wind Energy Association predicts the wind potential in the UK is large enough to facilitate seven times current energy use.
Watch this Announcement
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The plans have been well received by all parties, who like me are keen to know more, which will be revealed in a series of announcements over the coming months, hopefully the efforts and policy that is being implemented will increase the development of offshore wind farms over the next decade ensuring a sustainable future for the United Kingdom.
The potential in reduced CO2 emissions by installing 33GW at full capacity taking into consideration intermiitency and variablity would be about 46m tonnes of CO2 per annum, or approximately 7.8% of UK CO2 emissions or removing half of the cars off UK roads.
One way that has been touted this week by the secretary of state for energy, John Hutton for the United Kindom to meet a substainial reduction target by 2020 was to build 7000 offshore wind turbines around the coast, or one for every half mile of coast line.
"There is the potential, we believe, out there, using the resources that there are around the UK to generate maybe all of the electricity that households need ... from offshore wind sources. We should see whether we can maximise that potential because it's obviously in the nation's interest, in the world's interest, for us to make sure that more of our energy comes from clean sources."
Currently the UK has an installed capacity of 2.2GW, with a further 5.8GW potentially coming online before 2014, including the 1GW Atlantic Array, which is set to be the worlds largest wind farm. The British Wind Energy Association predicts the wind potential in the UK is large enough to facilitate seven times current energy use.
Watch this Announcement
Read the Transcript of this Interview
The plans have been well received by all parties, who like me are keen to know more, which will be revealed in a series of announcements over the coming months, hopefully the efforts and policy that is being implemented will increase the development of offshore wind farms over the next decade ensuring a sustainable future for the United Kingdom.
The potential in reduced CO2 emissions by installing 33GW at full capacity taking into consideration intermiitency and variablity would be about 46m tonnes of CO2 per annum, or approximately 7.8% of UK CO2 emissions or removing half of the cars off UK roads.
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