UK welcomes onshore wind back into the fold
For the first time since 2015, it will be possible for onshore wind projects to receive subsidies in the UK from 2021. We must take all measures to fight climate change, the government says.
When onshore wind was at its highest point in the UK, 405 projects were underway during a single year. This was in 2014, the year before former Prime Minister David Cameron pulled the handbrake and removed onshore wind from the country's Contracts for Difference (CfD) auctions to fight the "unsightly" machines and "rid" the countryside of them, as he put it.
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