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Faced with energy shortages, the climate might be right for budding wind energy entrepreneurs.
Feed-in tariffs and a sense of urgency among energy-intensive businesses and the World Cup organisers could produce the momentum needed to get renewable energy off the ground in South Africa.
A Greenpeace report found that the UK was Europe's renewables laggard as of 2005, with 1.3% of needs sourced from clean energy.
Ten years ago the UK's renewables figure was 1%. Not exactly progress.
Sweden, by contrast, got 35.7% of its energy from renewables in 2005.
Yesterday, however, members of the UK Parliament took the step of supporting a parliamentary motion supporting a drive to increase installations of solar power by means of "feed-in tariffs" that pay a higher than market rate for electrivity fed into the national grid when it comes from particular sources.
Feed-in tariffs have proved effective elsewhere in increasing use of renewable energy.