Vestas has shelved plans to build a plant to manufacture wind turbines on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, which would have created about 1,600 jobs.
The Danish firm supplies 40% of the offshore turbines used worldwide, and had been granted planning permission for the site at Sheerness Dock last month. A spokesman for Vestas said: “We want a good pipeline of orders before we advance further and we do not have that at this point in time.” Vestas’ decision was…
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