‘Dark day’ warning as world’s largest offshore wind farm to be built | UK | News
The Scottish government consent to the world’s largest open sea wind farm in the North Sea.
However, the campaignists called the SSE’s green light to the Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm.
If the 4GW wind farm is built, it can generate one and a half times more electricity than gas that can be produced with new licenses every year.
However, RSPB Scotland called for plans to refuse to protect the globally important seaside.
The Protection No Authority warned the development close to iconic colonies such as Bass Rock, and will kill tens of thousands of seasides during his life, including kittens, puffs and gannets.
“This is a very dark day for sea birds. It’s a terrible decision for a really bad development.
“Berwick Bank will be a disaster for globally important seafood of Scotland, which is already confronted with worrying decreases. In addition, they will damage its effects so much. This is a windbreak will be really difficult to accelerate the renewable projects in Scotland’s Scottish seas.
“RSPB Scotland acknowledges that climate change is one of the biggest threats against seabeds, but there are sea birds to save. Nature positively supported the wind of the open sea, and there are minimized effects on measures to restore and maintain wildlife and seaside populations. However.
“We will carefully examine the details of the approval documents in the coming hours and days, and thinking what steps we will take.”
The first Deputy Minister Kate Forbes said that the approval was given after “extremely careful evaluation”.
“The decision to consent to Berwick Bank is an important step in the progress of Scotland to reaching a net zero and struggling with the climate crisis, as well as supporting national energy security and growing our green economy.”
Forbes continued by saying that this is an important decision for the renewable energy sector and that the government will continue to work with developers to “balance the needs of people and nature”.
For the first time last year, the Britain shows green energy for more than half of the total electricity generation.
Renewable energy sources provided 50.4% of England’s electricity from 46.4% in 2023.
This is compared with 31.8% of fossil fuels, which are mainly gas and decreased from 36.7% in 2023.
Dr. Simon Cran-McGreehin, Head of Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) Analysis, helps to reduce our dependence on imported fuels as the UK-based renewable energy sources, North Sea oil and gas areas continue to decline, and today, a 50.4% of Reeınables provides 50.4% of our electricity.
“The United Kingdom Wind and the growth in the Sun, ten years ago, meant that two -thirds of the energy used for the UK electricity generation depends on foreign fuels, this figure was slightly below half in 2024.”
