14 DAY TRIAL // With Germany working long hours to switch from nuclear power to greener energy sources – solar plants being on top of their list from this point of view –, another powerful and highly respected European country decides to take similar measures.
Latest news indicates that the Brits are planning to invest around ₤7 billion (roughly €8.7 billion or about $10.9 billion) in the development of environmentally-friendly technologies, a decision that translates in their creating an extra 20,000 jobs for their citizens.
Most of this money is to reach the regions of Scotland and Yorkshire, claims Hugh McNeal, chief executive of the Office for Renewable Energy Deployment.
Thus, a new biomass plant is to be built in Selby, north Yorkshire, and a wind turbine research center will be erected in Mirfield, west Yorkshire.
Official reports also claim that Scotland is soon to have a fully operational wind hub at Edinburgh's Port of Leith.
According to businessesgreen.com, Renewable UK, the country's leading renewable energy association, states that the British government plans on making sure that, by the year 2020, 15% of the nation’s energy requirements can be dealt with by national wave and tidal companies.
As well as this, a representative of Renewable UK seems to have recently told the press that "We are also seeing UK companies making investments in the supply chains for our sectors, but this is just the beginning and there is a great deal at stake – more than 88,000 jobs in the wind and marine energy sector by 2021."
Given their national history – and right now we are thinking about Winston Churchill and his standing up to the Nazis during the Second World War –, we believe that no mistake is made in assuming that the British people are most likely to accomplish what they set out to do: both set an example in terms of environmental protection and help boost their national economy by creating thousands of new jobs.