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Electricity from offshore windfarms will cost at least twice as much as power from conventional sources including nuclear, according to a report published this week by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The findings of the report echo the results of research conducted by The Engineer (24 January 2003) in which we showed that the cost of installing 1,000MW of new nuclear generating capacity in the UK was pound 580m. Greenpeace's sum for the same amount of newly...