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

Households in Yorkshire ‘most willing to live near windfarm’

Windfarm in Liverpool
Wind turbines generate electricity at Frodsham windfarm in Liverpool. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images

Households in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the north-east of England are most willing to live near a windfarm in return for cheaper power, Octopus Energy has said.

The energy supplier has said the public are increasingly open to windfarms being built near them, as the government appears poised to lift a seven-year ban on new onshore wind developments in England.

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