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UK Establishes Tasks Force to Speed Up Onshore Wind Deployment

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The UK’s energy secretary Ed Miliband has established an “onshore wind taskforce” to move forward projects in the UK pipeline that were impacted by strict planning rules in 2015, Miliband said, cited by Renews.biz.

  • “Under the onshore wind ban, the pipeline of projects in England shrank by 90%,” Miliband added.
  • The government aims to double the UK’s onshore wind capacity by 2030, up from around 15GW of installed capacity currently.
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The UK’s energy secretary Ed Miliband has established an “onshore wind taskforce” to move forward projects in the UK pipeline that were impacted by strict planning rules in 2015, Miliband said, cited by Renews.biz.

  • “Under the onshore wind ban, the pipeline of projects in England shrank by 90%,” Miliband added.
  • The government aims to double the UK’s onshore wind capacity by 2030, up from around 15GW of installed capacity currently.