RE: BP More good green news23 Mar 2022 18:41
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Projects now in the pipeline mean the UK is on course to have offshore wind capacity totalling 86 gigawatts (GW).
Between 2009 and 2021, the cumulative installed capacity of offshore wind power in the United Kingdom rose from 951 megawatts to 10.5GW. But this is set to rise by eight times.
According to RenewableUK, there has been a 60 per cent increase in the offshore wind pipeline in the last year alone.
This analysis includes projects which are fully operational, under construction, consented, in the planning system or being developed for submission into planning.
The boom in development has been driven mainly by massive leasing round announcements by The Crown Estate (8GW) and Crown Estate Scotland (25GW), the report’s authors said.
Wind power already provides almost a quarter of all UK electricity in Britain, increasing by 715 per cent from 2009 to 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Renewable UK said China now has more capacity fully operational than the UK (24GW compared to our 10.5GW), but the UK’s total pipeline of 86GW is bigger than China’s 75GW.
Meanwhile the USA is in third place with 48GW in its pipeline.
Dan McGrail, chief executive of RenewableUK, said: “Our latest EnergyPulse report shows that the UK’s world-class offshore wind industry has taken huge strides forward in the past 12 months, with landmark leasing announcements adding an extra 33GW to our pipeline, and funding for floating wind ring fenced in the current Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction to help accelerate the growth of innovative technology.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-to-rise-eightfold-and-overtake-us-and-china/ar-AAVpyTB?ocid=msedgntp
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