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24 Oct '12, 1pm

UK Reports Major Renewable Energy Advancements in 2012

Despite this uncertainty, the UK crossed the 6-GW wind capacity milestone, and Marianne McCaffery, chief executive of RenewableUK, the trade association for the nation’s wind, wave and tidal industry , predicts that it will reach 8 GW by end 2012. According to reports, the British public supports renewables despite some political opposition driven by a desire to protect the countryside from wind farm development, and a recent media flap over an expected rise in energy prices during which wind turbines were publicly demonized. But a recent survey found that, in the service of meeting European renewable energy targets for 2020, over two-thirds of the British populace favors more wind turbines over shale gas. DECC’s latest quarterly energy statistics , released in September 2012, revealed further proof that the UK is moving forward with renewable energy. According to the repo...

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