LONDON: The UK on Tuesday (Sep 3) mentioned it had awarded a report 131 new inexperienced infrastructure initiatives in a single public sale, together with plans for Europe’s two greatest offshore windfarms.
The new Labour government hailed the result to energy tens of millions of properties throughout the island nation with cleaner vitality and which adopted an identical unsuccessful public sale in 2023 beneath the earlier Conservative administration.
“We inherited a damaged vitality coverage, together with final yr’s disastrous public sale spherical which gave us no profitable offshore wind initiatives,” Vitality Secretary Ed Miliband mentioned in an announcement.
He mentioned the UK had “achieved a record-setting spherical for sufficient renewable energy for 11 million properties, important to present vitality safety to households throughout the nation”.
“It’s one other vital step ahead in our mission for clear energy by 2030 – bringing Britain vitality independence and decrease payments for good,” Miliband added.
The public sale awarded contracts for 9 new offshore wind initiatives, together with for what might be Europe’s largest and second-largest windfarms, Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4, off the Yorkshire coast in northern England.
There have been additionally contracts for onshore wind, photo voltaic and tidal vitality initiatives.
