In the news yesterday, Scotland just switched on Europe’s largest onshore wind farm. The wind farm represents an investment of £300 million, and the 140 wind turbines generate 300 MW of electricity, enough to serve some 250,000 homes. The developer is planning to double the capacity in the coming years. This is in line with UK government aspiration to generate enough power from wind turbines to light every home in the U.K. by 2020.Apparently more than 50 countries are active in using wind energy. Most of the ideal places are those that are facing open oceans. UK and northern Europe are in an ideal location for harvesting the wind energy as they got the North Atlantic system feeding the shore with constant strong winds. In Asia, it is Japan, China, Taiwan Philippines and Indochina. The potential is a lot less for those further to the south particularly around the equator where the winds are more subtle and malign. Those countries that are always blighted by tycoons are where the active wind system are present. Nonetheless it should not prevent us from at least investigating and investing a bit on this renewable resource as we can't forever rely on non-renewable.
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