Brown to Promote Wind, Clean Coal to Curb U.K.

(Bloomberg) — The U.K., more reliant on natural gas than any country in Western Europe, will try to persuade utilities to build more wind parks and carbon-free coal plants.

Britain is importing record volumes of gas, through pipelines from Norway and by ship from the Middle East, to replace production from spent North Sea fields. The purchases leave the country open to price increases and supply disruptions. Russia provides a quarter of Europe