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Proposed offshore wind farm sites

Last edited 31 July 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
31 July, 2001

Crown Estates announcement

Map showing the proposed locations of offshore wind farms within the UK

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Potential offshore wind farm sites within the UK

Last edited 31 July 2001 at 8:00am
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31 July, 2001

Crown Estates announcement

The Crown Estate, in its role of landowner of the UK Territorial Seabed, has completed the processing of lease applications for sites a month ahead of schedule. Developers can now begin their preparations for seeking the statutory consents required for offshore wind farm developments and in particular, begin their public consultations.

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Offshore wind: Global wind power potential

Last edited 31 July 2001 at 8:00am
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1 May, 2001

Despite the increasing frequency of very high energy gales, the power of the wind is hard to fully appreciate, probably because it seems to come out of 'thin air'. But a single modern wind turbine of 2MW power will produce as much electricity over a year as the electricity used by 1200 households i , and offshore wind turbines are set to be 3MW and even more powerful in future.

The combined global onshore and offshore wind resource that is technically recoverable is 53,000 Terawatt hours per year about four times bigger than the world's entire electricity consumption in 1998.

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Greenpeace and The Body Shop launch challenge to bring clean energy to two billion worldwide

Last edited 28 June 2001 at 8:00am
28 June, 2001

Leading environmental organisation Greenpeace has joined forces with international high street retailer, The Body Shop today, to challenge world governments to provide access to renewable energy for all within ten years, in particular the two billion people who live without any power.

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See 'The Wind' directed by Julien Temple

Posted by bex — 19 April 2001 at 8:00am - Comments
'The Wind' celebrates the massive, but as yet untapped, potential of renewable energy resources in Europe in the 21st Century. It also highlights the very real dangers of climate change and the impact this is already having on people's lives throughout the world.

'The Wind' is a remarkable short film commissioned by Greenpeace and directed by Julien Temple with voices from John Hurt and Rachel Weisz and music by Primal Scream.

 

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New era dawns for UK renewable energy industry

Last edited 4 April 2001 at 8:00am
4 April, 2001

The UK wind industry had a massive boost today when the Crown Estate gave the green light to 18 new offshore wind farms around the coast of England and Wales, with the combined potential to supply one million homes.

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Greenpeace challenges oil industry to outline routemap to renewable energy future

Last edited 31 January 2001 at 9:00am
31 January, 2001

Greenpeace today challenged the oil industry to announce publicly how it will move away from fossil fuels production to renewable energy in response to climate change. A letter to 25 oil companies operating in the UK calls on each to publish a carbon transition strategy by the end of the year.

At the same time, the campaign group put the issue of carbon transition before BP's one million investors by formally submitting a shareholder resolution to the company's AGM. The resolution will be put to the vote on April 19th.

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Greenpeace hosts world premiere of Julien Temple

Last edited 5 October 2000 at 8:00am
5 October, 2000

'The Wind' a remarkable new short film commissioned by Greenpeace and directed by Julien Temple, will receive its world premier at the Greenpeace Business Conference in London today (5 October 2000).

'The Wind' celebrates the massive, but as yet untapped, potential of renewable energy resources in Europe in the 21st Century. It also highlights the very real dangers of climate change and the impact this is already having on people's lives throughout the world.

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Renewable energy means new jobs

Last edited 24 March 2000 at 9:00am

Solution - wind energy

Solution - wind energy

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Response to government's draft UK climate change strategy

Last edited 21 March 2000 at 9:00am
21 March, 2000

Greenpeace Executive Director, Peter Melchett said,
''Prescott and Meacher have done a good job sticking to the 20% target and in stressing the need for much deeper future cuts in fossil fuel emissions to protect the climate. Now the Government has to deliver - wind, wave and solar industries will have to supply all our electricity - but in the UK these big businesses of the future are being ignored while New Labour worries about the needs of the declining oil industry" Significantly, the Government has outlined its long-term strategy in the following two areas:

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