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  • Wind farms 'are failing to generate the predicted amount of electricity'

    12/18/2006 5:58:47 AM PST · by grundle · 44 replies · 1,161+ views
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | 10/12/2006 | Charles Clover
    The claimed benefits of wind energy are called into question today by a study that finds few wind farms in England and Wales produce as much electricity as the Government has forecast. The first independent study to rate farms according to how much electricity they produce shows that wind farms south of the Scottish border are not generating as much as the Government assumed when it set the target of producing a tenth of Britain's energy from renewables by 2010 and 15 per cent by 2015. Despite millions being spent on wind turbines, the study by the Renewable Energy Foundation...