UK Government announces plans to quadruple offshore wind power by 2030

• 3 years ago (2020-08-07)
• David Flin

Europe 1061 Offshore wind 119

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Kwasi Kwarteng, UK Energy Minister, has announced that the UK Government will conduct a review of current energy infrastructure at sea, increasing the country’s offshore wind power from 10 GW to 40 GW by 2030.

The review will focus on improving the cabling and transmission infrastructure to reduce the costs and impacts of connecting new wind farms to the onshore electricity grid. It will also consider how hybrid projects could combine offshore wind connections with interconnectors to neighbouring markets, helping export more green energy.

Renewable energy made up almost half of the UK’s electricity generation in the first three months of 2020, beating the previous quarterly record of 39 per cent set last year. This was largely powered by offshore wind, generating 30 per cent of the UK’s electricity in the four months to April.