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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Floating windfarms could be hosted off Cornwall and Wales, crown estate says

An offshore wind farm
The crown estate hopes the windfarms will power almost 4m homes by 2035. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Floating windfarms could be built off the coasts of Cornwall and Pembrokeshire after the Queen’s property manager identified a clutch of sites in the Celtic Sea that could host them.

The crown estate, which generates money for the Treasury and the royal family, has published five “areas of search” that will be narrowed into development plots to host wind power generation.

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