British wind farms deliver record output

James S Murray
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Around five per cent of electricity provided to National Grid on Monday came from wind farms

Britain's wind farms reached record levels of output on Monday providing five per cent of all electricity to the grid over the course of the day. National Grid confirmed that 40.5GWh out of a total...

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