Countries around the world are looking for new and innovative ways to create energy in a clean way. Technology like solar and wind power, although expensive to set up, offer cheap and clean fuel once they are functioning. People around the world have finally accepted the fact that traditional fuels like oil and coal are not viable options for the future. Not only do fossil fuels create most of the carbon emissions that lead to climate change, the supply is not infinite. This has led energy companies to start to look for new ways to generate energy that do not require the burning of filth coal and oil. One major energy company in the United Kingdom is adding to its repertoire of renewable energy by building a series of wind farms.
Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, has announced its plans to construct a wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire. Construction of the new wind farm will begin later this year and should be finished by 2012 according to Centrica. The wind farm will include seventy five turbines which will be able to generate two hundred and seventy megawatts of power. The project will cost Centrica over seven hundred and fifty million pounds and will increase the output of Centrica’s renewable energy projects to over six hundred megawatts.
Gordon Brown has pledged that these types of projects will grow in number and that they are a great way to create the jobs of the future, as well as clean energy.
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