The UK is embracing the uptake of renewable energy generation with a target of 15% of all energy coming from renewable sources by 2020. This is likely to equate to between 30% and 35% of electricity generation in 2020 from renewables with at least two thirds from wind energy. The majority of this will come from large scale wind farms, both on- and offshore. In the first annual survey of its type, BVG Associates, on behalf of UK Government's Department for Energy and Climate Change, is gathering information from companies involved in the wind industry to establish baseline data for UK content in UK wind farms and also for the Gross Value Added by the UK wind industry. Here we present the interim results of the UK content survey.
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