Call for UK to restore onshore wind subsidies

The UK should review its decision to ban onshore wind subsidies, a move that could cost Scotland as much as £3bn (€3.58bn) and torpedo its clean energy targets, MPs have said.

Scottish views were not considered when former prime minister David Cameron’s Conservative government said it would end new subsidies for the technology, according to a report issued yesterday by the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee.

Scotland currently hosts about 60% of the UK’s onshore wind capacity. It is the UK’s cheapest way to produce low-carbon electricity, according to analysts.