Renew Extra Weekly

 ‘Wind generated more than 85TWh - nearly 30% - of Great Britain's electricity last year,’ so said the BBC recently . It certainly does seem to be a big success.  So to welcome in the new year, we take a look back at the early days of UK wind, to see how we got here, with coverage of a new report by alternative energy pioneer and eco-architect Dr Derek Taylor, who is now a Visiting Fellow at the Open University. He has had over 50 years of involvement with wind energy, including having developed some novel wind turbine designs at the OU.  Back in 1975 he organised the UK’s First Workshop conference series on wind power held at the Architectural Association in London. It was evidently a seminal event.  In his new report he looks in detail at the contributions he and others made to it. He focusses in particular at two large pioneering projects, part of the of the impressive 1950’s British wind power programme managed by the Electrical Research Association (ERA) Wind P...