U.K. to speed up planning for nuclear plants, big wind farms
Britain set out plans yesterday to speed up the planning process for big wind farms and new nuclear-power plants and named 10 sites where reactors could be built. Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said new nuclear plants, combined with cleaner coal plants and more renewable energy, would help Britain to secure its energy supplies and cut its greenhouse-gas emissions. Previous attempts to build new nuclear plants have been delayed by the exhaustive planning process. It took six years and cost £30-million ($53.1-million) to secure planning consent to build the Sizewell B reactor, right, in southern England. Under the new proposals, decisions on plants bigger than 50 megawatts, or 100 megawatts for offshore wind, will be cut to one year.
Reuters
10 November 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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