75 turbines, 200 jobs, 300,000 homes - by 2012 - It's going to be Big!

Europe's largest onshore wind farm in East Renfrewshire is going to be even bigger.

Scottish Power Renewables is to add another 75 wind turbines to the farm on Eaglesham Moor by 2012.

This will take the farm's number of turbines to 215, raising its generation capacity to 539MW - enough to power 300,000 homes.

The expansion will also create an additional 200 jobs.

The additional turbines will make it one of the largest wind farms in the world.

It's more economic good news for the area and for renewable energy generation as a whole in the UK.

Read a more in-depth report on the BBC website.

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Wind turbine factories in the UK will create thousands of jobs

Following up on a tweet last week, I came across this story in The Independent about an £80 million investment in building a new wind turbine manufacturing plant creating 700 jobs.

Whilst the site has yet to be confirmed by the German company Siemens, another company - General Electric (American) announced it too was investing £100 million in the UK with the prospect of creating 2,000 jobs.

The Independent goes on to say that the announcement by Siemens follows "months of talks and meetings at Downing Street, and followed changes in the Budget which announced grants for ports to build green manufacturing hubs."

Read the full article here. Good news indeed.

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