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Jobs blow revealed in wind energy report

By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent

Published: October 20 2008 03:00 | Last updated: October 20 2008 03:00

The massive planned expansion of renewable energy may produce far fewer jobs than the government has claimed, a study has found.

Producing enough renewable energy to meet government targets would create about 36,000 jobs in the wind energy sector by 2020, according to a study by Bain & Company for the British Wind Energy Association, to be published today.

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