UK Telecoms Turns to Wind Power

UK telecoms company British Telecom (BT) has unveiled a £250m project to develop wind farms aimed at generating up to 25% of its existing UK electricity requirements by 2016.

BT says its wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity – enough to meet the power needs of 122,000 homes, saving 500,000t of CO2 each year compared with coal generation.

BT is one of Britain's biggest consumers of electricity, using 0.7% of the UK's entire consumption each year.

The wind farm scheme represents the UK's biggest corporate wind power project outside the energy sector.

The project will bring together third party funding and renewable energy partners.

By staff writer