UK offshore wind capacity grew 60% to 2.5GW between July 2011 and July 2012 while onshore capacity increased by 24% to 5.3GW, says an update to the country’s Renewable Energy Roadmap.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) also highlights big capacity increases and cost falls for solar PV, which is added to the UK’s list of “key technologies” in the update.

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