The government looks set to stop new wind farms after Energy Minister John Hayes was quoted by two newspapers stating that the UK had enough of them.
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both carry interviews in which he says "enough is enough" and that the country is "peppered" by the farms.
They say he has now ordered a new analysis of the case for wind farms and their effect on local communities.
The government said it was committed to renewables as one part of its strategy.
Mr Hayes said he did not like onshore wind turbines before he was appointed to the role last month, describing turbines as a "terrible intrusion".
He is now reported as saying there are sufficient wind turbines already in the planning system to meet the government's aims and declares he cannot "build a new Jerusalem" but can "protect our green and pleasant land".
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is already running a consultation on wind farms, but Mr Hayes suggested there will be reviews commissioned into the noise that turbines create and their relationship with the landscape.
Community 'desires'He said: "We can no longer have wind turbines imposed on communities. I can't single-handedly build a new Jerusalem but I can protect our green and pleasant land.
"We have issued a call for evidence on wind. That is about cost but also about community buy-in. We need to understand communities' genuine desires. We will form our policy in the future on the basis of that, not on a bourgeois Left article of faith based on some academic perspective.
"If you look at what has been built, what has consent and what is in the planning system, much of it will not get through and will be rejected. Even if a minority of what's in the system is built we are going to reach our 2020 target."
Some 4,000 turbines are due to be built across the country in future.
Mr Hayes, Conservative MP for South Holland and The Deepings, gave a speech to the Renewables UK event on renewable energy on Tuesday night, which a DECC spokeswoman said was "well received by the renewables industry".
She said that the views quoted by the Mail and Telegraph were not expressed in that speech.
She added: "Government policy for renewables, as stated in the Renewables Roadmap, sets out scenarios for renewable deployment, but does not set targets or caps for the deployment of individual technologies, including on onshore wind.
"Government is committed to supporting a balanced energy mix of renewables, new nuclear and gas in order to meet the UK's energy needs".
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