Saturday, September 1, 2012

World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm to Rise Off Scottish Coast

SustainableBusiness.com: Plans for a 339-turbine wind farm off the Scottish coast that could power up to 40% of the homes in Scotland were filed this week over the objections of critics including American real estate billionaire Donald Trump. The $5.7 billion (4.5 billion euros) project would place the 670-foot towers about 13 miles off Caithness in the Moray Firth. It would have a generating capacity of 1.5 gigawatts (GW), 50% larger than the giant 1 GW London Array, reports TheGuardian. The project, which would rank...

URL: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24032

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