Today the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown is expected to announce the launch of a £100 billion programme to build thousands of new offshore wind turbines. This scheme comes as part of the government’s drive to meet their renewable energy targets.
Reported in the Sunday Times, Gordon Brown is expected to award a number of contracts to numerous energy firms and in turn create opportunities for contractors in the building and construction of these wind turbines.
This new generation of wind farms will be mainly in the North Sea. The biggest site is expected to be at the Dogger Bank sandbank, 100km off the east coast, the size of which would represent more than 10 times the capacity of total global offshore wind power in operation today.
In other news today, The UK manufacturing sector continued to recover in December, according to the latest CIPS/Markit index giving increased confidence to contractors looking for work in this sector.
