Offshore wind farm.

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Responding to the government's announcement for a plan to deliver up to 25 gigawatts of electricity from wind power in 12 years, Benedict Southworth, the director of the World Development Movement said:

"We have been waiting for the government to make a meaningful commitment towards renewable energy. This scheme will give us the energy security that the UK needs, will help the UK to meet its EU targets on clean energy and will further reduce our need for new coal power stations, like the proposed site at Kingsnorth in Kent. This announcement gives us hope that the government is listening not only to energy lobbyists, but is starting to hear the voices of people in the developing world, who are already suffering from the effects of dangerous climate change.

In response to E.ON CEO, Paul Golby's comment that climate campaigners always say no to business 'solutions', Benedict Southworth continued:

"To combat climate change, there are many issues that we need to confront. We need to say no to coal; no to corporate lobbyist's scaremongering; and yes to renewables and mean it."

Press release from the World Development Movement