$160bn, UK starts 2014 world's biggest infrastructure project for wind power

Post date: Jan 09, 2010 1:8:22 AM

The opportunity attracted some of the big energy players: Southern Energy,

E.On and Scottish Power, as well as Norway's Statoil, Germany's RWE and

Sweden's Vattenfall.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown

is launching a £100bn programme to build more offshore wind farms.

32 Gigawatts of Wind powered offshore Electricity

In total, the successful bidders estimate the farms

will generate 32 gigawatts of electricity.

Jobs created by wind power

"It's created 20,000 jobs in Denmark, 30,000 jobs in Spain and

80,000 in Germany. We have 6,000. If we build only 20 gigawatts

of offshore wind farm capacity by 2020, and two-thirds of that is

built in the UK, that could create over 45,000 jobs,"

2020 UK 25% Windpower electricity 32 gigawatts

The energy generated from the new wind farms will provide a

quarter of Britain's electricity needs by 2020.

70,000 jobs by 2020

source: cnn.com

Germans lead UK power revolution

Foreign firms have seized lion's share of contracts to kickstart a wind revolution in offshore Britain. Germans

set pace in winning orders for difficult projects in deeper waters