Not on the radar: Government to award £14m for air defense friendly offshore wind projects

Stuart Stone
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Government launches £14m Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence innovation competition

The government has this week earmarked more than £14m of funding for innovations that can better enable the co-existence of wind farms and the UK's airspace defence radars. The Department for Energy...

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