Britain will have to install six times more wind turbines on land and 50 times more wind turbines at sea by the end of the next decade under rules to be announced by Brussels next week.

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The UK has the best financial incentives for offshore wind farms of any EU country and is "clearly seen by investors as the most attractive place for investment in this growing industry", according to a KPMG study.

The research, carried out for the German Wind Energy Association, was published in the wake of leaked Government papers which suggested that the Government plans to work with Poland and France to undermine European targets of 20 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020 and "effectively abolish" UK targets.