The energy trade off
Shock decision: Scottish Executive block wind farm
Today the BBC1 reported that the Scottish Executive will be blocking plans to build a wind farm on the Isle of Lewis. The planned wind farm would have been the biggest in the world with 181 wind turbines with each unit generating 3.6mw.
The decision to block the wind farms project was unexpected especially in the light of the UK’s commitment to green energy. If more of these projects are to block by government the UK may not be able to hot it’s targets proposed by the EU commission2 earlier last week.