2020年までに33GWの風力発電を導入するという大胆な計画を発表していた英国の動き、British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) が リポート”UK Offshore Wind: Moving up a Gear ”を発表しています。このリポートでその計画の全貌が、かなり詳しくわかってきました。
・U.K. aims for 33GW of wind / クリッピング cleantech.com(イギリスは、2020年までに33GWの風力発電を導入計画-----ソフトエネルギー、2007/12/13
では、British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) のリリースから、
プレスリリース / British Wind Energy Association (BWEA),7th December 2007
・Hutton to anounce major offshore wind push
" ”By 2020 enough electricity to power all of UK's homes”
Britain's leading renewable energy trade association, BWEA, today welcomed the prospect of major increase in the UK's renewable energy capacity. Business & Enterprise Secretary John Hutton is set to announce imminently a new strategy for the development of offshore wind.
The 2007 Scoping Document is due to be published on Monday 10th December. The Scoping Document will set out Government's expectations for future offshore wind farm sites in UK waters.
It is the starting gun for a Strategic Environmental Assessment of UK waters that should result in new sites for developers from 2010 onwards. Following a round of site awards, offshore wind power could provide virtually all electricity for UK's domestic power consumption.
BWEA Chief Executive Maria McCaffery ”This is a decisive step towards delivering Britain's share of the EU 2020 renewables target." She added "The Scoping Document sets out where the UK's next generation of offshore wind could be and the BWEA's new report, Moving up a Gear, shows that it can be delivered”

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The BWEA's report 'UK Offshore Wind: Moving up a Gear' examines the challenges of delivering offshore wind, and concludes that we are well on the way to having 6,300MW of generating capacity in the water by 2015. With new sites flowing from the process started by the Scoping Document, the UK could have 20,000MW of offshore wind capacity by 2020, the equivalent of 17% of UK supply.