Clean energy mission blow as Hornsea 4 windfarm cancelled

In a significant blow to the government's clean energy ambitions the Danish energy company Orsted has cancelled plans for a huge windfarm off the coast of East Yorkshire.The Hornsea 4 project would have become one of the biggest offshore wind farms in the world with a potential capacity of 2.4GW – enough to power more than a million homes.Orsted said the project no longer made economic sense, despite signing a…