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UK's Grimsby 'generating more electricity from renewables than anywhere else in England'
(The Independent, 6 Feb 2016) It makes an astonishing 28 per cent of the electricity it uses from green sources.
Once the fishing capital of the world, Grimsby’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in recent decades, leaving a depressed town with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
But now it is being reborn as the renewable energy capital of England, generating more electricity from solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas than anywhere else, and creating “new hope” in the area.
It makes an astonishing 28 per cent of the electricity it uses from green sources – much of it from household solar panels and wind turbines, according to new research.
The Independent, 6 Feb 2016: UK's Grimsby 'generating more electricity from renewables than anywhere else in England'
