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Microgeneration

For the large part, renewable energy development has been focussed on larger scale development, e.g. that would power entire towns and cities. As such, the desire has been to develop larger wind turbines.

As we all know, there are drawbacks to this scale of development, e.g. 'eye saw' and 'noise pollution'.

However, there appears to be motion towards development of smaller wind turbines, or 'better' wind turbines, which would be more suited for 'micro' use, e.g. to power small businesses, farms and domestic usage, in other words 'microgeneration'.

The following two articles expand upon the above notion:

• Wind turbine development moving on from pursuit of size
• Tory microgeneration Bill seeks to bring “power to the people”