Wind turbines of 500ft tall and 475ft in diameter will be built in Britain in the next few years, according to a report in the daily Telegraph.
A 10 megawatt machine, christened ‘Britannia’, is scheduled to be built off the coast of Northumberland by 2012. However, this could be just the first of many such machines – with a weeping circle that is more than 500ft wide. Such offshore turbines are seen as a solution to meeting growing domestic and business electricity needs.
Meanwhile, on the same day the newspaper reported that many of Britain’s inshore landscapes will be forever altered by new pylons being built to transport this electricity to homes and businesses.
The National Grid is planning an expansion of high-voltage pylons and cables so that the green energy can be connected to the grid. However, overground pylons could run through areas of outstanding beauty and many critics favour underground cables – which could cost almost 20 times as much to lay, a cost that many fear will be passed on to domestic and business electricity customers.
You can read about the new offshore turbines here
And the National Grid’s pylon plan here.
Tags: Business Electricity, Green energy
