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ABERDEEN, Scotland, May 31, 2006 (Refocus
Weekly)
Most residents of Britain support their
government's push for greater use of renewable energies, according
to a poll commissioned by the Department of Trade & Industry.
“The government's target is that 10% of the UK's electricity will
come from renewable sources by 2010," says energy minister Malcolm
Wicks. Prime Minister Tony Blair wants Britain to increase its use
of renewables and nuclear.
NOP Social Research Interviewed 1,932 people by telephone over two
consecutive weekends in March, providing a nationally representative
sample of adults. In addition, an ad hoc ‘boost survey’ of 100
respondents in Scotland was conducted to provide a sample for
analysis of opinions in the Highlands & Islands region.
The main objective of the survey was to provide a measure of
awareness and attitudes to renewables among a sample of the UK
public and, specifically, to examine the awareness levels of
renewables and attitudes to renewables, as well as to determine what
influenced the opinions and to gauge perceptions of recent media
coverage on renewable energies.
The survey found that, “despite all the hot air and scepticism from
certain quarters, 85% of the general public support the use of
renewable energy, 81% are in favour of wind power and just over
three-fifths would be happy to live within 5 km of a wind power
development,” Wicks told delegates to the sixth All Energy
conference, which claims to be the largest all-renewable energy
exhibition ever held in Britain. "But it's not just large-scale
renewable energy projects that we want to encourage but also more
localized generation such as micro wind turbines, solar panels and
combined heat and power biomass boilers.”
"The Prime Minister's recent speech to the CBI put renewable energy
firmly on the agenda and that is a message I want to re-iterate,” he
said. "The government's target is that 10% of the UK's electricity
will come from renewable sources by 2010 and this will provide a
solid foundation that can be built on in order that they can make an
even greater contribution to the mix as we look to bridge any future
energy gap.”
"To do this, we will need more schemes like the Whitelee windfarm
which was recently given the green light by the Scottish Executive,”
he added. “This project will be the largest onshore windfarm in
Europe when it is completed and will provide clean energy for
200,000 homes, almost the whole of Glasgow.”
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