China's Ming Yang extends UK reach with Scotland turbine factory plan

Chinese role in critical infrastructure questioned as London faces heat over Beijing ties

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Ming Yang Smart Energy Group is planning to invest 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility near Inverness in Scotland. (Ming Yang Smart Energy Group)

CHRIS DORRELL

LONDON -- China's Ming Yang Smart Energy Group has unveiled a plan to build the U.K.'s largest wind turbine factory at a time when the British government has come under pressure over its courting of Beijing, raising questions about London's ability to meet its green energy targets without Chinese involvement.

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