A coalition of 130 MPs has called on Boris Johnson to alter the UK’s planning and energy policies to better support the growth of onshore wind.

In a letter sent to the Prime Minister this week, the MPs state that “onshore wind energy is vital to our aim of achieving our onshore wind energy is vital to our aim of achieving our climate targets at least cost and the inspiring vision of a before-2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target”. At least cost and the inspiring vision of a before-2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target”.

The document highlights the decision taken by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in 2015 to exclude onshore wind assets from the Government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) process – a move which industry body RenewableUK claims will stifle future growth in installations – as one which should be overturned on the road to net-zero.

It goes on to argue that the National Planning Policy Framework should be amended to help the uptake of small onshore arrays with a capacity of 5MW or less. At present, such developments are subject to different and more lengthy process than other renewable and low-carbon projects. Moreover, the development of these small projects can be halted by one formal objection.’

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Boston Renewables welcomes the possibility of a revision to the NPPF for onshore wind turbine development and hitting climate targets.

No one wants subsidies back; just the ability to develop our wind resource without impenetrable political control.