LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer usually goes out of his way not to annoy President Donald Trump. So he better hope the windmill-hating U.S. president doesn’t notice what the U.K. just did.
In a fillip for the global offshore wind industry, Starmer’s government on Wednesday announced its biggest-ever down payment on the technology.
It agreed to price guarantees, funded by billpayers to the tune of up to £1.8 billion (2.08 billion euros) a year, for eight major projects in England, Scotland and Wales.
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The schemes have the capacity to generate 8.4 gigawatts of electricity, the U.K. energy department said — enough to power 12 million homes. It represented the biggest “wind auction in Europe to date,” said industry group WindEurope.
