The word 'onshore' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe activities or locations near a coastline or shoreline, like activities that occur on land as opposed to offshore activities. Example sentence: The energy company will be constructing an onshore wind farm near the beach.
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A massive onshore windfarm on Shetland which is expected to be one of the most productive in the world has been cleared to go ahead after a final legal challenge failed.
The anniversary party comes the day after it was announced there could be up to 100 billion barrels of oil onshore beneath the south of England.
Rudd also confirmed the government's intention to scrap subsidies for onshore wind farms and allow local communities to have final say over their installation.
Subsidies will be scrapped for new onshore wind farms, the cheapest form of low-carbon energy.
"Failure by the next government to harness the full potential of onshore wind and ensure new projects are built would be bad news for UK voters and bill payers," argues Rachel Ruffle, UK development director at RES. "It would cost hundreds of millions of pounds every year on more expensive energy technologies".
The vast majority of Irish renewable power comes from onshore wind, a sector from which the Tories in the UK have promised to slash subsidies.
But local authorities may not get to use their veto as the government plans to remove the price support for onshore wind – making the industry compete directly with fossil fuel energy sources.
"The unsubsidised cost of electricity from the most cost-effective new onshore wind projects beats all other forms of generation.
In the Conservatives' manifesto, they made concrete a proposal that was floated last year: there will be no more public subsidy for onshore windfarms, and they will "change the law so that local people have the final say on windfarm applications".
Previously, Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy & Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is facing: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison".
