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Crown Estate gives green light to offshore wind

04 June 2008 • 3 min read

Owner of UK sea bed to lease out 11 zones to offshore wind farm developers capable of generating up to 25GW of energy

The Crown Estate has today started the race to tap the country's offshore wind resources, outlining plans to lease large areas of the sea bed off the coast of the UK to wind farm developers. Under...

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