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Gordon Brown has recently announced plans that made even Greenpeace perform a ripple of applause.

£100bn investment (200bn USD) in renewable energy has been proposed meaning that thousands of wind turbines will be built.

The prime minister has described these plans as his “green revolution” and suggested it is to be the country’s largest energy initiative since nuclear power.

The North Sea – formally a huge source of energy for the UK with its oil and gas supplies – has now peaked and Brown wants this to be turned into a stretch of water oozing with wind power.

Middelgrunden in Copenhagen’s harbour (see photo above) has long been a wind farm I have yearned should become a blueprint on a global scale. It serves as a good example of what the view off the UK’s east coast may one day resemble. Quite beautiful.

Should these proposals come to fruition, then they should ensure we meet the EU’s agenda that states that countries must produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.

As reported in the Guardian, the good news doesn’t stop here:

“Householders will be encouraged to reduce their bills through energy-saving incentives due to be announced later this summer. Within a decade … every householder able to do so [should] fit loft or cavity wall insulation, install low-energy light bulbs, and use low-energy consumer goods.”

Perhaps the political green tide is turning here in the UK. A man who has caused many green campaigners absolute anguish has listened and begun that revolution.

Sources:

Greenpeace

The Guardian

Image Source:

andjohan at Flickr under a creative commons license.

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