BT invests £250m in wind farms - Independent Online Edition > Business News 

BT upped the ante in the green-energy stakes yesterday by revealing plans to lead a £250m wind farm project to generate renewable power that will supply a quarter of its energy needs by 2016. It is the ... largest corporate wind power project to be launched outside the energy sector and puts pressure on other large UK companies with large land banks to consider similar action. BT is one of the biggest consumers of electricity within the UK with its annual consumption accounting for around 0.7 per cent of the country's energy usage. The company has already reduced its carbon emissions by 60 per cent since 1996 and expects the new wind farm project to help the company hit its new target of 80 per cent by 2016. Power generation is hardly BT's core business, but Hanif Lalani, the company's finance director, said it was important that the company leads the way on reducing its carbon footprint as its customers demand it. "Customers want us to generate products and services using green energy. No   [More...] [Less...]