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United Kingdom: Tory plan to limit onshore windfarms will raise energy bills, engineers warn
2014-04-10 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Conservative party plan to limit the number of onshore windfarms would drive up household energy bills, according to the UK's most eminent engineers. Replacing a single banned onshore turbine with offshore wind power, which is more expensive, would cost 300,000 a year more in subsidies, with the extra cost being added to bills, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) said. The engineers also said a cap on turbines would make it harder to meet the UK's legally binding targets for renewable energy...
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