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Burnham hails £12bn wind farm investment as he prepares for Cop31 climate talks
The 2.8GW scheme includes £1 billion from the National Wealth Fund and is expected to power about 3 million homes by 2030.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced a £12 billion investment in two offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast today, ahead of his departure for the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey.
- Energy company RWE and investment firm KKR are funding the Vanguard West and Vanguard East projects, with £1 billion from the state-owned National Wealth Fund backing the scheme.
- The projects will generate around 2.8 gigawatts of power, enough to supply three million homes, and support more than 2,400 jobs during construction and operation.
- Representing Britain at the United Nations' COP31 summit in Antalya, Burnham will attend while France's Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, and Canada's Mark Carney skip the event.
- Meanwhile, SSE announced 130 jobs for its Berwick Bank B project, with Chief Executive Martin Pibworth calling it a 'powerful and timely example' of British industrial capability.
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Burnham hails £12bn wind farm investment as he prepares for Cop31 climate talks
The Prime Minister said the investment was a vote of confidence in the UK.
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