Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms

BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016.

The project will cost up to £250m and will use third party funding and renewable energy partners to help the telecoms giant reduce its carbon emissions.

The wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity, which would prevent the release of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 each year compared with coal generation.

BT is aiming to have 50 wind turbines up and running by 2012, which would generate around 100MW of power.

Pictured is a wind farm in Cambridgeshire, which is representative of the type of development BT is planning.

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