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A total of nine offshore wind farm contracts have been awarded by the government after last year's auction failed to attract any bidders at all.

The contracts are part of a wider slate of green energy projects that also include tidal and solar power, and will provide enough electricity to fuel the equivalent of 11 million UK homes, the government said.

However, while the new offshore wind projects have been broadly welcomed, some experts questioned whether they would generate enough capacity to meet renewable energy targets set for 2030.

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On Tuesday, a total of 131 contracts have been awarded to firms for projects which will generate 9.6 gigawatts (GWs) of renewable energy.

The new offshore projects include what will be Europe's largest and second-largest wind farms, Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4, which will be built off the Yorkshire coast by Ørsted, the Danish energy giant that is majority-owned by the state.

The Labour government is aiming to produce 60GW of energy through offshore wind farms by 2030.

The offshore wind farm projects announced on Tuesday provide capacity of 4.9GW.

Pranav Menon, a research associate at Aurora Energy Research, said the government still has some way to go to meet its goal.

"It still falls short of the pace required to meet its ambitious targets," he said.

 

Despite the name of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, it doesn't actually go through the county town of Stafford so a group of volunteers are now trying to make that happen.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It your using them every day I can get (but don't agree) with the hassle of shuffling them. But if they are still and your just reserving space you don't need them your a *unt

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think this was pretty expected. I think there are also other levers that could be pulled to help, such as giving renters more rights, that would make being a landlord less apealing and wold help the country as a whole not just London.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

I doubt most stations have scanning machines.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

would making it easier for people not to use their cars help? Better public transport, closer services etc? Do a lot of people have multiple cars just in case they sometimes need it.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

oh god yes, the people who park on the road when they have multi car drives to save having to shuffle cars every now and then do my nut in.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

the wardens around here target "problem" place.ere they can catch lots of people quickly, over problem areas where there is a real issue. For example untill recently there was no where to stop outside our local post sorting office, so people just risked it, and the wardens would wait, they have finally put some spaces here and it's no longer an issue

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

around me there are quite a lot of cars that sit on the street and never seem to move, getting those off the road as as a start would help. Also plenty of places I see where there is plenty of space to park fully on the road, but people park on the pavement by habit

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yes and from memory the government have been sitting on the results. This was a question to the community mostly.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a power struggle between the spiders and rats begins, with each slowly growing bigger to outpower each other, years pass and we have dog sized spider and rats, and dog kind joins in... a few years later we have cow sized spiders,rats, and dogs... it never ends.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are times where it might be appropriate for the saftey of others or the child... but, the more I hear about how these are being conducted the more it sounds like that (some) people conducting them are enjoying it too much.

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck you very much :)

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's been known for a long time that a lot of our flood provention techniques just move the problem (which is sometimes useful), and often causes floods when they happen to be worse, if less frequent. We have known that a lot of these techniques effect wild life too for a long time. I am glad we are finally starting to consider our existing installations instead of just adding more.

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