This is the latest setback for the government, which is relying on wind power over the next decade to help the UK achieve tough green energy targets.
Last week, Iberdrola S.A. had admitted that investment in the UK would fall by 40% in 2009.
To start the investment, Centrica and the government have been in talks aimed at giving industry a bigger incentive to develop wind farms. The group wants Whitehall to offer increased concessions under its wind subsidy programme.
As per the scheme, for every unit of green electricity a company produces, it receives a credit from the government that can be used to offset charges it faces from any electricity it uses or produces from coal fired power stations.
UK’s Energy Minister Mike O’Brien is determined to create the conditions that will allow the wind industry to move ahead with its investments, without which the UK would miss its climate change targets.
