LONDON: The UK on Tuesday (Sep 3) mentioned it had awarded a report 131 new inexperienced infrastructure tasks in a single public sale, together with plans for Europe’s two greatest offshore windfarms.
The new Labour government hailed the end result to energy hundreds of thousands of properties throughout the island nation with cleaner power and which adopted an analogous unsuccessful public sale in 2023 underneath the earlier Conservative administration.
“We inherited a damaged power coverage, together with final 12 months’s disastrous public sale spherical which gave us no profitable offshore wind tasks,” Power Secretary Ed Miliband mentioned in a press release.
He mentioned the UK had “achieved a record-setting spherical for sufficient renewable energy for 11 million properties, important to provide power safety to households throughout the nation”.
“It’s one other important step ahead in our mission for clear energy by 2030 – bringing Britain power independence and decrease payments for good,” Miliband added.
The public sale awarded contracts for 9 new offshore wind tasks, together with for what will probably be Europe’s largest and second-largest windfarms, Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4, off the Yorkshire coast in northern England.
There have been additionally contracts for onshore wind, photo voltaic and tidal power tasks.