Ed Birkett

Senior Research Fellow, Energy and Environment

Ed Birkett is a Research Fellow in the Energy and Environment Unit. Ed joined Policy Exchange in 2020 after spending a year at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. For the last five years, he has worked in the UK energy sector, most recently as a developer of large-scale solar and energy storage projects.

Onshore wind is ready to contribute to local communities and to net zero

by Ed Birkett | Mar 12, 2020

Related Content Community Benefit could provide over £100,000 a year for local projects In 2015 the Government excluded onshore wind from the Contracts for Difference support scheme based on concerns from local residents about visual impact. Since then, whilst new...

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