BT to invest a quarter of a Billion in windfarms
Telecom giant, BT, is set to invest £250m in wind farms which will generate a quarter of the firms energy by 2016.
The energy-guzzling company currently accounts for 0.7 percent of the UK’s total energy consumption making it one of the largest energy consumers in the country.
BT hopes to locate the test windfarms in Orkney, Shetland and in Cornwall.
The scheme is the biggest corporate wind power project outside the energy sector and BT said the strategy is part of a its project to reduce carbon emissions and safeguard supplies of clean energy.
The wind turbines would reduce the amount of CO2 emissions by 500,000 tonnes each year and would generate enough electricity (250MW) to power 122,000 homes.
The scheme is part of BT’s effort further lower its carbon emissions. The company has already lowered their carbon emissions by 60 percent and hope to reach 80 percent with the wind-energy scheme by 2016.
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Title should read *billion* me thinks.
The editing of this site has gone waaaaaaaay down hill....
They probably cut that 60% by closing all their customer support offices. You're on hold for hours trying to get through to BT.
If they didn't have a monopoly on phone lines here I'd have nothing to do with them.
2016? My ISP (eclipse) is already carbon neutral.
Oops. . .Sorry!