Wind energy to beat nuclear energy

Leaders in wind energy in the United Kingdom have said that in the next five years the amount of energy that is generated from wind will surpass that generated from nuclear sources.

Figures given by the British Wind Energy Association show that the installed wind energy generating capacity in the United Kingdom will beat that of installed nuclear in a span of the coming half a decade.

Maria McCaffery, the chief executive officer of the British Wind Energy Association revealed that the wind energy sector was no longer a small player considering that the sector was already generating five hundred megawatts already and another eight gigawatts were planned for in the future.

Though players in the wind energy sector are optimistic about the future of the industry many are of the view that there are unnecessary delays when it came to getting planning and development approval and that all these needed to be speeded up to encourage greater investment in the industry. In the past bureaucracy and the high costs that go with wind energy development have caused a number of highly prospective projects to be prematurely called off.

The chairperson of the British Wind Energy Association, Adam Bruce and who is also the Scottish and Southern Energy’s head of sustainability pointed out that generation of energy from renewable sources such as wind would be instrumental in helping to hit the target set by the European Union on renewable energy whereby each member country was required to produce a certain amount of electricity from renewable energy sources.

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