BT launches major wind power plans to ensure future power is clean.
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.