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18 October 2007 - The UK's largest telecommunications company BT has unveiled plans to build wind farms that would be able to generate up to 25 per cent of the company's existing electricity requirements by 2016.
The project would be the biggest corporate wind power project outside the UK energy sector, BT said in a statement, costing up to £250m ($500m) to build 250 MW of wind power generation capacity adjacent to or on BT's existing sites.
It would also prevent the release of 500 000 metric tonens of carbon dioxide a year compared with coal-fired power generation.
"BT has already achieved a 60 per cent reduction in its carbon emissions, and is committed to reducing them further to 80 per cent by 2016," Hanif Lalani, BT Group Finance Director, said in a statement.
BT consumed 2.2 TWh of electricity in the year ending 31 March 2007, equivalent to about 0.7 per cent of the U.K.'s total annual consumption. The company generated 640 000 tonnes of CO2 over the same period.
BT's wind farms would have a total installed generating capacity of around 100 MW by 2012, equivalent to around 50 wind turbines, with the remaining 150 MW targeted by 2016, the company said.
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