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UK Is Set to Loosen Its 2030 Offshore Wind Power Target
- Britain isn’t on track to hit Labour’s 2030 offshore wind goal
- Not clear that ambitious offshore target was ever realistic
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The UK is preparing to pull back its target of building 55 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by the end of the decade.
The government may step back from the goal after early analysis showed that the nation will probably need less offshore wind than Labour was expecting, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because discussions are private. The target was slightly bigger than the previous government’s already ambitious goal of 50 gigawatts.