Lifting the onshore wind ban

08/07/2024

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has announced that the de facto ban on new onshore wind projects is being lifted today. Community Energy England and many of our partner organisations have lobbied hard for this change and we are delighted that the new government has, as they promised, acted immediately to make new onshore wind a reality. From today “onshore wind applications will be treated in the same way as other energy development proposals.

It’s worth reading Wind-powered Heat, a report by Regen and Ashden that we collaborated on about how wind can make decarbonising heat cheaper and up to 90% lower carbon than gas. See a presentation on the Bishops Castle Heat Initiative which is piloting this model. 

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