#Renewables firms already planning new #OnshoreWindfarms in #England

At least six energy companies prospecting for first windfarms in almost a decade after #Labour lifts limits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/09/renewables-firms-already-planning-new-onshore-windfarms-in-england
[Connections to #NationalGrid?]

#Labour lifts #Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on #OnshoreWindfarms

#RachelReeves says she will revise planning policy and decisions should be taken nationally, not locally
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/labour-lifts-ban-onshore-windfarms-planning-policy
#ClimateCrisis

#ESO said new record was also set for the share of #electricity #ongrid coming from #zerocarbon sources – #renewables & #nuclear – which supplied 87.2% of total power. These sources have accounted for about 55% to 59% of power over the past couple of years.

John #Redwood utterly apoplectic as his fracking shares take a dive & someone tells him about batteries.

#sunak, is expected to overturn a moratorium on new #onshorewindfarms.

#ToriesUnfitToGovern #EnoughlsEnough

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/03/uk-sets-new-record-for-turbine-power-generation-after-period-of-low-wind

“A Labour government would rip up the planning rules restricting the expansion of #OnshoreWindfarms as part of a plan to make the UK a clean energy superpower”

This is in stark contrast to Sunak’s reinstatement of the ban on new onshore projects earlier this week

Good. We haven’t got time for NIMBYism

#UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/10/labour-would-ditch-tory-ban-on-new-onshore-windfarms-says-starmer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other