Carbon Trust searches for bigger cables to cut offshore wind costs

Jessica Shankleman
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Head of Offshore Wind Accelerator programme calls on government to relax planning rules for demonstration wind turbine sites

The Carbon Trust is to launch a competition to find a cable that could double the amount of power carried between offshore wind turbines as part of its flagship innovation project to cut the cost of green...

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