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Doctor Who star backs call for wind turbine increase
ACTOR Peter Capaldi joined green groups yesterday to push for more offshore wind turbines to clean up Britain’s electricity grid.
Mr Calpaldi spoke as Greenpeace, the Marine Conservation Society and WWF kicked off a poster campaign at Westminster Tube station in London.
Electricity from offshore wind is now half as expensive as it was two years ago. It is already cheaper than the price promised to French state-owned EDF for power from Hinkley Point C — and the nuclear plant won’t start generating for over 10 years.
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