Top universities ink £50m wind farm deal

James Murray
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Ground-breaking 10 year contract aims to help position 20 leading UK universities for a net zero world

A group of some of the UK's largest universities have teamed up to sign a ground-breaking renewable energy deal that will see them source power directly from British wind farms for the next decade...

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