BT launches major wind power plans

BT is to undertake the UK’s biggest corporate wind power project outside of the energy sector, which could generate up to 25 per cent of its current UK electricity requirements by 2016.

The project is intended to ensure a high proportion of BT’s future energy supplies are based on green energy sources as part of its carbon emission reduction strategy. BT already has the UK’s largest green electricity supply contract.

With an annual requirement of 0.7 per cent of the UK’s electricity consumption, BT is one of Britain’s largest consumers of electricity. The wind farms will begin generating power by 2012 and within four years could generate a total of 250 megawatts of electricity – enough for 122,000 homes, equivalent to a city the size of Coventry.

Hanif Lalani, BT Group finance director, said: “There is a pressing need for industry to cut carbon in ways that make business sense. BT has already achieved a 60 per cent reduction in its carbon emissions, and is committed to reducing them further to 80 per cent by 2016. Our wind energy plans play an important part in reaching that target.”

The project will cost up to 250m, which will include some third party funding. The first phase will be to identify suitable suits on or adjacent to existing BT property and then seek planning permission and local community involvement. BT has already applied for planning permission for test masts at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, Wideford Hill Radio Station in Orkney and Scousburgh Radio Station in Shetland.

Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder and Programme Director of Forum for the Future, added: “This is an enormously significant decision for BT – and for every company that sees BT as a recognised leader on sustainability issues. It’s a substantial investment, guaranteeing very low carbon energy for BT for the foreseeable future, and precisely the kind of decisive, ambitious intervention that more and more companies are going to have to come forward with.”

Source: BT Mobile

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