LONDON - Energy giant Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) (SHEL.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and PowerGen (EONG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) have stepped up plans to build a wind farm, aiming to submit a preliminary planning application to the British government by early 2005.
"The consortium is hoping to submit a preliminary planning application to the Department of Trade & Industry and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs in early 2005," said a Shell spokesman.
In December, Shell and PowerGen first announced that their consortium - London Array Ltd - was planning to build a wind farm on the Thames Estuary that could ultimately supply up to a quarter of London's power.
The wind farm's turbines would be located some 20 km off the coasts of Essex and Kent in southeast England, and the companies said it could save annually 1.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
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