Keith Anderson of Scottish Power: ‘It only takes us two years to physically build an offshore wind farm but the planning process is fundamentally flawed and means it takes us more like 10 years’ © Charlie Bibby/FT The UK government risks squandering a “God-given” opportunity to kickstart the economy and accelerate the shift to renewable energy by failing to reform the planning process for big infrastructure projects, the head of Scottish Power has warned. Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, said that almost two years into the energy crisis the government needed to focus on helping companies speed up the development of wind farms that can help replace expensive gas. “It only takes us two years to physically build an offshore wind farm but the planning process is fundamentally flawed and means it takes us more like 10 years,” Anderson told the Financial Times. “We have got a God-given project of work in this country that’s ready to go, the money is there,” he said. “It would kickstart the economy after Covid and the gas crisis and spread investment throughout the country, with money filtering down through local supply chains,” he added, describing it as “an absolutely colossal […]
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