UK to boost wind farm power generation by a third

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will boost the generation of power from wind farms by a third next year as part of efforts to hit renewable energy targets, a government minister said on Wednesday.

Energy and climate change minister Mike O’Brien said the government was expecting to increase the UK’s installed wind power generating capacity to four gigawatts by this time in 2009.

That compares with the three gigawatts achieved following completion of construction of a wind farm owned by Centrica Plc off the UK’s east coast this week.

Reuters