LONDON (Reuters) - Britain set out plans on Thursday for a 10-fold increase in renewable energy within 12 years in a scheme welcomed for its ambition but criticized for lacking concrete policies to cut carbon emissions and reduce dependency on fossil fuels.

The government's proposals for meeting its 2020 target of getting 15 percent of all energy from renewable sources foresees about one third of Britain's electricity coming from renewables and is expected to involve 100 billion pounds of investment.

"This is a green revolution in the making... It is the most dramatic change in our energy policy since the advent of nuclear power," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at the launch in London's Tate Modern. ... Read full article