World's biggest wind farm planned for London

[applegrove]

World's biggest wind farm planned for London

By Helen McCormack (The Independent)
08 June 2005

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=645094

Plans have been submitted to build the world's biggest wind farm in the Thames estuary. It is designed to generate enough electricity to supply a quarter of London homes.

The complex, named the London Array, is predicted to cost £1.5bn to build and would be capable of meeting 10 per cent of the Government's target to have 10 per cent of the UK's electricity generated by renewable energy resources by 2010.

If permission is granted to build the farm, 270 turbines, each 300ft (100m) in height would be constructed over 152 sq miles (245 sq km) 12 miles off the Kent coast. The proposals were submitted by a consortium formed by the energy companies, Shell, E.On Renewables and an Anglo-Danish company, Core.

They have, however, raised concerns over the possible impact on local wildlife and the environment. But the director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper, said that projects such as the London Array were "urgently required" to tackle the problem of carbon dioxide emissions."

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[Fridays Child]

1. Beaucoup de vent...

...beaucoup de l'électricité.

[merbex]

2. While there may be concerns about wildlife - just as there are

precautions about birds at airports around the world - there are still plenty of birds around.

I don't recall hearing or reading of any species done in by airports

I'm confident birds will adapt to a windfarm