Long-term subsidies for wind farms are to be cut by a quarter, the Government will announce this week.
The decision will delight anti-wind farm campaigners and back-bench Conservative MPs who have sought a cut to curtail the construction of turbines.
But the wind power industry said the measure would leave billions of pounds of investment and thousands of jobs “hanging in the balance” and pointed to David Cameron’s promise that his government would be the greenest ever.
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