The Queen Goes Green

Not content with heating Buckingham Palace with Geothermal energy Mrs Windsor has bought oneself a jolly big windmill, aka a 7.5 Megawatt Wind Turbine.

And not one to do things by halves she’s bought THE BIGGEST WIND TURBINE IN THE WORLD! Go Liz, go!

Appropriately enough, it’s called ‘Britannia’ and will be situated in the sea off Britain somewhere, so once again (drumroll please) Britannia will rule the waves!

The cynical amongst us may see this as just a further example of the Crown’s canny investment in future power.

Because you can’t just wake up one morning and plonk your own windfarm offshore. Oh no! You gots to talk to da Queen first.

All the offshore windfarms in the UK are there by grace of HRH, via the Crown Estate. From the Crown Estate Website:

“The Energy Act 2004 created a ‘Renewable Energy Zone’ (REZ) on the UK continental shelf out to 200nm and rights to licence the generation of renewable energy in the REZ were vested in The Crown Estate.” (My italics).

I’m guessing those licenses don’t come cheap. It’s good to be the Queen!

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