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Global climate change is accepted as being the greatest environmental challenge facing our world today. Together with the need to ensure long-term security of energy supply, it imposes an obligation on all of us to consider ways of reducing our carbon footprint and sourcing more of our energy from renewable resources.
To ensure that the UK plays its part in tackling the dual challenges of climate change and security of energy supply, the government has set tough national, regional and county level targets for renewable energy generation.
Energy generation from onshore wind has an important role to play, and, although there is progress, the need for further renewable energy resources remains.
In Cumbria, the target is that 284.8 MW of electricity will come from renewable sources by 2015: 87% (247.5 MW) of it from onshore wind farms.
Presently, the operational wind farms in Cumbria generate just 69.48 MW.
The Broughton Lodge wind farm therefore has the potential to make a valuable contribution to this goal.
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