UK MP to fight RWE over 1.2GW Triton Knoll

A map of the planned onshore works for Triton Knoll

A map of the planned onshore works for Triton Knoll

Local politicians and anti-wind objectors continue to get ready for battle with RWE, after the German utility laid out its preferred options for onshore grid infrastructure related to its 1.2GW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.

Over the weekend Mark Simmonds, Conservative Member of Parliament for the Boston and Skegness constituency in Lincolnshire, eastern England, made public a letter he sent to the UK environment minister John Hayes, calling RWE’s plans “unreasonable”.

Hayes, a fellow Conservative, is known within the British renewables industry for his own antagonistic views towards onshore wind.

While acknowledging that wind power “has a role to play” in the UK’s energy mix, Simmonds bemoans that his constituency seems to be “consistently targeted” for projects and the “inevitable infrastructure” they entail.

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