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The winners of the upcoming offshore wind farms in Britain have been allocated. This project is a renewable imitative that will provide 25 percent of the total electricity demand in United Kingdom by 2020.

The bill for the nine new wind farms is £75 billion. Moreover, the venture should produce around 70, 000 new jobs and is considered the largest project in Britain history.

The companies that have been offered the projects are:
1. Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd, ,
2. Dogger Bank Zone,
3. SeaGreen Wind Energy Ltd
4. A consortium of Siemens Project Ventures and Mainstream Renewable Power
5. Eon Climate and Renewables UK
6. Eneco New Energy
7. RWE Npower Renewables
8. Centrica Renewable Energy
9. East Anglia Offshore Wind Ltd

Signed Zone Development Agreements have already been produced with The Crown Estate. Crown Estate is in charge of renewable energy in the water of the United Kingdom. The planning and consenting phase is not in place.

UK is now finally setting their aim towards low carbon to establish clean and prosperous future. According to Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, ED Miliband, the UK zone has idle wind resources, and ultimately the right conditions are now present to use it to generate electricity at large scale.

Nonetheless, the 6,000 turbines will probably not be supplied for UK. The major suppliers of turbines might be Germany or Denmark as the firms are not forced to purchase parts from domestic manufactures.

Some of the areas include Bristol Channel and Anglesey. Yet, the greatest concern is whether the national will be able to bear the supply of wind energy during peak times.

Source: The Times