BP Says Dash For Gas Is UK Best Energy Hope

The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, says that wind power ambitions may not be able to meet the UK’s energy need. He goes on to say that these green energy programs need to be scaled down.

BP, the UK’s largest oil company, warned just earlier this week that Britain’s offshore wind revolution, which was launched with a lot of fanfare by Gordon Brown last month, may struggle to meet half of its ambitious goals. BP goes on to say that it needs to be scaled down in favor of a new dash for gas to keep the lights on over the next 10 years.

Hayward said that the British government’s ministers risked being seduced by headline garbing ideas, which does include offshore wind and clean coal. This is being done in a bide to bolster energy security and meet climate change goals. BP makes billions of pounds a year from oil and gas, but is also investing in onshore wind farms in America.

Mr Hayward went on to say that he was not calling for the third round of wind licensing in the deep water of the North Sea to be shelved. However, he did believe that this move into wind power needs to be slowed down, because it would not deliver anything like the targets set for it. Hayward said that he thinks that it could possibly produce 15 gigawatts of power rather than the 25 gigawatts wind industry experts claim.

Pretty much Hayward is claiming that wind power, much like nuclear energy, is nowhere near being commercially viable. Wind experts are saying that they would expect nothing less from the chief executive of a company that makes its money on oil. They are scared of change, but a change has to happen.