Mar 12, 2014

MPs criticise rush for subsidies


Every home is paying £25 each year for wind farms.
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Article in the Daily Mail by James Chapman, 12th March 2014.

Wind farms are being handed £1.2billion a year in subsidies paid for by a supplement on consumer electricity bills.
That works out at £25 for each household and business, in what one Conservative MP criticised as a Klondike-type gold rush.
Ministers told Parliament that onshore wind farms received £557million last year, and offshore turbines £699million. The figures will add to fears that big business is planning to erect hundreds more turbines in order to claim the generous handouts.

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