By Gemma Simpson on 19 October 2007 10:44
BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016.
The project will cost up to £250m and will use third party funding and renewable energy partners to help the telecoms giant reduce its carbon emissions.
The wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity, which would prevent the release of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 each year compared with coal generation.
BT is aiming to have 50 wind turbines up and running by 2012, which would generate around 100MW of power.
Pictured is a wind farm in Cambridgeshire, which is representative of the type of development BT is planning.
Photo credit: Visual Media
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1. Monica Elmes
Since wind turbines require coal or other base load power generators to always be ready to supply power when the wind stops, the coal plants continue to burn coal but simply divert steam away from the generator when the wind produces electricity.... so this talk about reducing or saving carbon emissions is crap... wake up and realize that this is not as green as you are led to believe!
2. anonymous
Trust that BT makes provision to dismantle and remove these eyesores when the general public realise what a waste of time and environmental hazard to human health these wind turbines are. Ask those that are already cursed by the presence of these monstrocities nearby their homes. Don't the general public realise that we need CO2 emissions for the food chain - photosynthesis?
3. anonymous
So was it on File on Four, or Costing the Earth on BBC Radio 4, where they revealed that some of these Windfarms are sited in places that deliver 7% efficiency, and we're going to be subsising them via our normal energy bills?
Sorry I can't find the link.
It's OK Monica some of us know that this Climate Change is a load of bunkum being pedalled to justify taxes and state intrusion.