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Households Could Be Paying £800m More This Winter Due to Onshore Wind Farm Ban

An onshore wind farm in Bradwell-on-Sea, UK.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Government policies over the last decade which hampered the roll-out of onshore wind power in Britain might be adding close to a billion pounds to energy bills this winter, new analysis suggests.

Without a 2016 decision to effectively ban the construction of onshore wind in most parts of England developers could have built enough turbines to generate around