Small scale wind systems need more support
Speaking at an Environment Protection conference in London last week, BWEA manager, Alex Murley asked for more support from the government.
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) estimates that the UK has the potential to install 600,000 wind turbines, which could generate 1.3 gigawatts of power by 2020.
The small scale wind systems are becoming increasingly popular throughout the UK, with an 80% annual growth, but the BWEA still consider planning an issue.
Government Backing?
The government’s lack of guidance to local authorities has caused long delays and confusion over installation rights.
“Two years after Government promised to tackle this issue, industry, local authorities and consumers are still waiting for detailed planning guidance and Permitted Development Rights to be issued,” said Murley.(September 19, 2008 – BWEA website)
Useful energy source or pesky noise maker?
Stereotyped as noisy, ugly and a countryside spoiler it’s no wonder the BWEA are struggling to get adequate backing.
Having researched trends in public opinion, the BWEA concluded that of 1190 letters published between 1st of August 2001 and 31st July 2002, 727 or 61% of were negative.
Yet of these, an amazing 27% were written by just 12 people.
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Paul Bradshaw says:
Swap the first and second pars – your news is the 2nd. Drop the last par – it doesn’t add anything. You could link to a poll (use PollDaddy – extra brownie points if you embed it in the article itself)
Feb. 26 at 10:12 amGeorgie says:
I’ve set up a poll on my own blog, but Kasper has said this version of wordpress can’t accept polls…
Mar. 5 at 6:04 pmKasper Sorensen says:
You can always just link to the poll on your blog.
Poll Daddy is a part of wordpress.com blogs. The version of WordPress we use here, does not have Poll Daddy installed by default and would require a plugin. It’s something we could easily implement, but at the moment the demand does not seem to justify the installation of another plugin.
I think what Paul is referring to, is that you can embed HTML directly in your post by using ‘code view’. If you know how to do that, you might be able to ‘embed’ the poll into your article.
Mar. 8 at 11:54 am