£50m bid to capitalise on North Sea wind power boom
A North East port has submitted a bid for more than £50m to help it reap the benefits of a Government drive to make the UK the “Saudi Arabia of wind power”.
The Energy Central partnership – which includes Port of Tyne, Advance Northumberland, Northumberland County Council and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult – wants to turn around 200 hectares of land at the port into sites that could…