UK risks wasting huge wind power opportunity, energy boss warns

Keith Anderson of Scottish Power: ‘It only takes us two years to physically build an offshore wind farm but the planning process is fundamentally flawed and means it takes us more like 10 years’

The UK government risks squandering a “God-given” opportunity to kickstart the economy and accelerate the shift to renewable energy by failing to reform the planning process for big infrastructure projects, the head of Scottish Power has warned. 

Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, said that almost two years into the energy crisis the government needed to focus on helping companies speed up the development of wind farms that can help replace expensive gas.