{"id":114018,"date":"2020-10-07T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/uk-pledges-to-get-100-of-residential-power-from-wind-turbines"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:22:18","slug":"uk-pledges-to-get-100-of-residential-power-from-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/uk-pledges-to-get-100-of-residential-power-from-wind-turbines","title":{"rendered":"UK Pledges to Get 100% of Residential Power From Wind Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-pledges-to-get-100-of-residential-power-from-wind-turbines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ramping Up<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Johnson announced that the U.K. would invest about \u00a3160 million ($207 million) that will go toward factories that would develop new turbines as well as floating offshore turbines themselves. In order to power every home in the U.K., those turbines would need to generate about 40 GW of power, <em>Engadget <\/em>reports. That\u2019s four times the nation\u2019s current wind energy output.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle, the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands,\u201d Johnson announced at the U.K. Conservative party conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramping Up Johnson announced that the U.K. would invest about \u00a3160 million ($207 million) that will go toward factories that would develop new turbines as well as floating offshore turbines themselves. In order to power every home in the U.K., those turbines would need to generate about 40 GW of power, Engadget reports. That\u2019s four [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}