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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jillian Ambrose

UK backs biggest English onshore windfarm in a decade among 190 green energy projects

Royd Moor onshore windfarm near Penistone, South Yorkshire
Contracts were awarded to 28 new onshore windfarms after ministers doubled the amount of funding available to developers. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

The largest onshore windfarm in England in a decade has been awarded a government subsidy among 190 contracts for renewable energy projects, as Labour attempts to hit a goal of creating a virtually zero carbon power grid within four years.

The government said it would offer contracts to a record number of solar projects alongside support for onshore windfarms including the huge Imerys project near St Austell in Cornwall.

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