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The UK is the world leader in offshore wind. Aiming to maintain that position with 30GW installed by 2030...or 40GW according to the Tory’s 2019 Manifesto and reiterated this week. It wasn’t news. So many in the industry are wondering what prompted the announcement from the PM this week ... From the FT: “The UK became a leader in wind farms, little thanks to Mr Johnson, who described them as “white satanic mills” and “moaning seagull-slicers”. “No one seriously believes that wind turbines are the answer to our power shortages,” he wrote in 2013. Instead he recommended nuclear and shale gas. No laughing.“
Why the change of heart Prime Minister? Was it the fact he’s finally recognised that wind farms work, they employ thousands of people in skilled roles and they reduce carbon emissions or because its a multi-multi-billion pound sector, one of the few recent UK success stories and still relatively young with the technology advancing...or some other reason...? Whatever, the sector will put it’s head down and get on with it, as it quietly has been doing for the past 20 years... ... See more

Boris Johnson is promising to "build back greener in his leader's speech to the Conservative conference.

Today’s job was a fun one ... announcing that “my” project will be the first in Europe to install Siemens Gamesa’s flagship 14MW turbines. 100 of these beauties will be able to power 1.2 million UK homes. Standing at 262m, for my Aussie followers, that’s taller than Melbourne’s Rialto. And they’ll be 195km from shore in the middle of the North Sea! ... See more

1400MW wind farm on Dogger Bank, North Sea. Construction due to start 2021. Further from shore, bigger turbines and technically more challenging than ever before.

Some positive news ... “Renewable electricity is forecast to be the only energy source resilient to the enormous slump caused by the pandemic and the only area expected to see growth in 2020.”

Pandemic on course to cause largest decrease in emissions ever recorded, six times larger than the previous record drop in 2009 following global financial downturn, says International Energy Agency

If anything good can come out if these horrendous bushfires, it’s that Australia fastforwards it’s transition to renewables. If the UK can do it. why not a country that is far more naturally blessed?

“....The cheapest new generation is from wind and solar. And every year they are getting cheaper. That is a fact....”. ... See more

The lies of the climate deniers have to be rejected. This is a time for truth telling, not obfuscation and gaslighting, writes former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull