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Tuesday, 20 November 2007
BT has unveiled plans to invest £250 million in wind farms that will generate up to 25 percent of its existing UK electricity requirements by 2016.
The project will bring together third party funding and renewable energy partners as part of the company's strategy to reduce carbon emissions. BT is one of Britain's biggest consumers of electricity: its annual requirement is around 0.7 percent of the UK's total consumption. It says the wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity - enough to meet the power needs of 122,000 homes and prevent the release of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 each year compared with coal generation.
BT is currently identifying high wind-yield sites on or adjacent to BT-owned land for development with the aim of generating power from 2012 onwards. It has already applied for planning permission for test masts at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, Wideford Hill Radio Station in Orkney and Scousburgh Radio Station in Shetland.
Subject to planning consent and suitable sites being secured, BT's wind farms would have a total installed generating capacity of around 100MW by 2012, equivalent to around fifty wind turbines, with the remaining 150MW targeted by 2016.
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