Wind energy firm given £1m grant

Published Date: 17 September 2009
A COMPANY in Midlothian was today awarded £1 million by the UK Government to develop new wind power technology.
Artemis Intelligent Power, based in Loanhead, is one of three firms to received grants for offshore wind development.Announcing the cash at the TUC conference in Liverpool today, Environment Secretary Ed Miliband said: "Our coastline means the offshore wind industry has the potential to employ tens of thousands of workers by 2020, manufacturing, transporting, installing and operating the new turbines."Waverley Cameron, chairman of Artemis Intelligent Power, said: "This kind of targeted support by government enables small research and development companies like Artemis to develop the breakthrough technologies needed to bring Britain to the forefront of the low carbon revolution."