REF was the first organisation to draw attention to the excessive prices demanded by windpower to reduce output (constraint payments), and the resulting publicity is in part responsible for the fall in prices, though these are still, in our view, excessive. http://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/299-constraint-payments-misunderstandings-and-misrepresentations
Support for the European Union’s climate and energy policy eroded further Friday as the Czech Republic became the latest member to denounce subsidies for clean but costly renewable energy and pledged to double down on its use of fossil fuels. http://www.thegwpf.org/czech-republic-abandons-renewable-energy-eu-climate-policy-crisis/
Briefing sums up new techniques used to build climate models that will be included in forthcoming IPCC report http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/13/met-office-tools-global-warming
Only a tiny fraction of the Scottish Government’s modern apprentices have found places in the renewable energy sector, it has emerged. http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2013/09/renewables-sector-employs-handful-modern-apprentices/
Giant wind turbines are to be transported through Dundee on the way to Aberdeen on oversized lorries. http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/wind-turbine-test-run-troubles-in-dundee-1.130590
Plans for a new offshore wind farm in the Solway have been revealed. Robin Rigg photo Alongside the Robin Rigg turbines stands a substation The Scottish Government has launched a consultation as it aims for the country to receive all its electricity from renewables by 2050. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.1084256
Western Isles SNP MSP, Alasdair Allan, has recently contacted the Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond MP, following a meeting with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar regarding the approach which the MOD takes to the planning process when it comes to applications for community wind turbines. http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/msp-contacts-defence-secretary-over-wind-turbine-objections-1-3091920
Scott Wright Group business correspondent THE company behind the planned Rumbletonrig wind farm two kilometres off the Berwickshire coast has entered into an agreement to help tackle youth unemployment in the area. TCI Renewables is to fund Borders College, Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Small Businesses and Read more