Maximising the benefits of the UK’s wind farms

Cardiff University research is helping to modernise energy transmission across the UK and Europe and push us towards the target of net zero carbon emissions.

By 2030, the UK Government wants offshore wind to produce enough electricity to power every single home in the country.

This aim will be at the centre of the UK’s drive towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and will see offshore wind power capacity rise from 30GW to 40GW.

Being home to over a third of the world’s offshore wind farms and seven of the world’s 10 biggest sites, the UK is in a very good position to rise to the challenge.

Doing so will require significant investment in new technologies, whilst at the same time increasing the capacity of existing power transmission corridors to integrate offshore and onshore wind.

And it is this task of improving and modernising existing infrastructure that has been a goal of the Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply for the last 10 years.