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Are you in a renewables hotspot?
By editor | 14 Sep, 2011
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Sheffield has been named as the UK's renewable energy hotspot in a report by energy consultant AEA. The research reveals the top ten areas of the country in terms of renewable energy installations since the launch of the Feed-in Tariff. As a whole, the UK has seen a 400% growth in microgeneration capactiy since April 2010, with solar PV leading the way with an increase of 900%.

The top ten
  1. Sheffield
  2. Leeds
  3. Bristol
  4. Bradford
  5. Birmingham
  6. London
  7. Liverpool
  8. Edinburgh
  9. Manchester
  10. Glasgow
Data showing the installations of renewable energy in all of the 380 local authorities in the UK is available from AEA's Microgeneration Index website, which includes a breakdown of the different technologies involved: wind, solar PV, hydro, micro CHP and anaerobic digestion (AD).



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