Wind Power

(asked on 21st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many wind farms have been established in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 29th May 2018

The table below sets out how many onshore and offshore wind farms have been established in the UK in each of the last five years for which full year data is available.

Table 1: UK onshore and offshore wind farms that have become operational between January 1 2013 and 31 December 2017

Technology

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Onshore wind

91

69

56

69

77

Offshore wind

4

1

4

0

5

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (April 2018 extract) BEIS: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract

Note: extensions to existing sites have been counted as new sites.

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