Dozens of new wind farms to be built as government signals onshore generation is back in business

Dozens of new wind farms could be built after the Government reversed its four-year ban on subsidies for onshore wind to help reach its climate change targets. Cameron’s government fulfilled an election promise to end subsidies for hideously unsightly wind farms in 2016 but polling, of whom nobody knows, since then has shown 78% of the British public support onshore wind. The Government is also under pressure to deliver on its legally binding promise to reach net zero by 2050, particularly as it hosts the COP26 international climate summit in November this year. The impact of the end to subsidies was revealed last year in figures that showed only 23 wind farms started generating electricity, compared with 405 in 2014.