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On a wind-filled future: something's missing…

Alan Whitehead, MP
clock 15 October 2020 •

Labour's Alan Whitehead welcomes the Prime Minister's new found love of offshore wind, but warns that without a more co-ordinated approach to connecting new wind farms to the grid the government's clean energy vision could quickly run aground

We're off to a wind filled future. At least, that's the destination according to Boris Johnson, after he used his conference speech last week to re-announce a target of 40GW of new offshore wind capacity...

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