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How Much Power Do Wind Farms Generate In England?

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As we all know, there has been much controversy about onshore wind farms lately.

The Conservative Government has promised to abolish all further subsidies for new wind farms. In reply, Renewable UK, the lobby group for renewable energy, has claimed that onshore wind is now the cheapest form of new generation in Britain and that polls consistently show support for wind power.



But just how significant is onshore wind in the overall electricity mix?

In the UK as a whole, onshore wind accounted for 6.7% last year. But if we only look at England on its own, which is after all where most of us live, we find a much different picture...

DECC also give total electricity generation figures for England of 260.9 TWh (latest figures are for 2014). This would suggest that onshore wind is only supplying 2.4% of generation in England....


The bottom line however is that we have have plastered pretty much all of England with wind turbines, yet for so little benefit.

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