Renewable energy in UK

The primary aim of the Renewable Energy Programme in UK is the development of a self-sustaining market for each of the technologies as they become technically, economically and environmentally viable. The White Paper “Energy for the Future: Renewable Sources of Energy suggests very ambitious targets. To achieve a 12 % contribution from renewable energy sources to the EU’s gross inland energy consumption by 2010 will involve major deviations from “business-as-usual”