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Renewable Energy – High Hopes for Wind Farms

The government in the UK promised to reduce the country's carbon emissions by eighty percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.  In recent weeks, however, the UK public opinion started to question the dedication of the government. 

A recent article published by wallstreetpit.com claims that BP, a large British energy company, has announced that it will be refocusing its wind power projects in the United States while shutting down the wind power projects in Turkey, India, China and here in the UK.  The article also claims that the UK will use wind power for thirty percent of the country's electricity supply. One has to wonder why BP is pulling out of the UK if the government is truly dedicated to exploring the options offered by wind power and other green technologies.

The Guardian website included an article that touted Great Britain as one of the world's premier locations for the development of wind technology.  Great Britain's wind technology popularity comes from its long coastline and the winds that have become famous around the globe. 

This same article names a new partnership between two major wind technology companies, Iberdola Renewables and Vattenfall, which will be building a new wind farm in the UK.  This wind farm will cost 780m pounds to build and have an expected output of 300MW.  Is it the pulling out of BP that allows for this new joint venture to be built? Why is wind technology being left up to private enterprise if the government is supposed to be fully behind it?

Still more criticism accompanies the complicated planning rules and the amount of money that it will take to construct all of the wind farms that the UK will need to build if the government truly wants to dedicate a third of its energy consumption to energy produced by wind farms.  An independent entity, The Carbon Trust, has estimated that in order to speed up the process to move to renewable energy, about sixteen billion pounds will need to be cut from the originally proposed budget.  An article by redgreenandblue.org points out that by the 2020 target originally quoted by the UK government, only a quarter of the offshore wind farms Britain needs will have actually been built.

Citizens of the UK understand that the power grid is not the best source of energy and that green technology is the way of the future for energy production.  Wind energy is cheaper and better for the planet than the current system that is in place.  Unfortunately the government has not proved its commitment to green technology.  With the current deadline of 2020 still in place, and all of the blocks standing in the way of actually reaching that deadline, will the government really be able to implement the wind energy it has promised?

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