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The One With Faisal and Rachel Reeves

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The Challenge of Renewable Energy in the UK

The UK has some of the world's biggest offshore wind farms and a large percentage of electricity coming from green sources. Currently we've got 200 gigawatts, or is it non-nause, giga watters, but it's a lot of electricity in the queue for connections. In fact, I mean, we've got a solar farm, we want to build in Durham, and I don't think we'll have a connection until 2036. So there's a demand for it. There's a rationale, both economic and political to get it going, kind of everybody wants it,. But there's just massive queue of what, several years.

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