Johnson's wind power dream to cost £50bn, analysts say

The prime minister's pledge to power every home in the country with offshore wind turbines by 2030 will cost £50bn and require massive reform of the power market, experts have warned. Speaking at the Tory party conference on Tuesday, Boris Johnson set in stone a manifesto target to quadruple offshore wind capacity to 40GW within the decade. Experts at Aurora Energy Research calculate that it will cost the private sector about £50bn to deliver the increased capacity, about twice as mu