United Kingdom
Vattenfall wholly owns and operates the Kentish Flats Off Shore Wind Farm, comprising of 30 efficient wind turbines capable of producing up to 3 MW of electricity each.
Vattenfall has recently acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project off Margate, Kent. On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of some 300 MW. Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables have entered into partnership to make joint bids in the third round of offshore wind farm development in the UK. Their common goal is to establish 6,000 MW of installed wind power capacity, corresponding to enough clean green energy to power four million homes by 2020. In october 2008 Vattenfall acquired AMEC Wind Energy Limited, a major UK developer of commercial wind farms. Vattenfall has also received valid acceptances in respect of 91.2% of the issued share capital of Eclipse Energy UK PLC, a UK based energy developer primarily focused on wind. There are approximately 25 million household in the UK, and the annual production at Kentish Flats is 280 GWh, which corresponds to the consumption of 70.000 households*. (* 4000 KWh per household)
Electricity Production
In 2006, the UK produced 394,474 GWh of electricity.
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This came from the following sources:
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| Coal | 37.5% |
| Gas | 36% |
| Nuclear | 18% |
| Oil | 1% |
| Hydro | 1% |
| Imports | 2% |
| Other | 4.5% |
Electricity companies have a share of the domestic market as follows:
UK Electricity Retail Customer Share 2007
Energy Politics
The UK was among the countries to agree in 2007 to a binding target of 20% of EU’s energy (electricity, heat and transport) to come from renewable sources by 2020, as set out in the spring European Council conclusions.
This is an ambitious target: in 2005, approximately 2% of the UK’s energy came from renewable sources, and on the basis of current policies this figure is expected to rise to only 5% by 2020. The UK Government announced in the March 2008 Budget that the UK is currently working towards a long-term goal of reducing CO2 emissions by at least 60 per cent by 2050.
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