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Wind power

Wind represents a clean, entirely renewable and unending source of power and is the one of the fastest growing sources of generation in Europe today. Wind farms can be placed both on land and in the sea. The advantages of onshore wind farms are that they tend to be cheaper to install and provide local, distributed generation of power.

Almost no carbon is released as a result of the operation of wind farms. Power generated from wind turbines displaces power that would otherwise be generated using carbon intensive technologies, and, hence, reduces the emissions from the UK power generation sector. The main sources of emissions for wind power comes from the embedded energy relating to the manufacture and supply to the point of use, as well as ongoing maintenance requirements.

Wind has now overtaken landfill gas as the largest contributor to renewable energy generation in the UK. The Government’s targets for renewable power are likely to result in further development of onshore and offshore wind farms.