Large swathes of Britain will be opened up for shale gas drilling under plans due to be announced next week, with local communities promised £100,000 in benefits for every well subjected to fracking – even if no gas is produced. Ministers are preparing to identify thousands of square miles of Read more
PLANS to give communities more of a say over wind turbine proposals are deeply flawed and will make smaller farm-based renewable energy schemes prohibitively expensive for farmers, an expert has warned. James Davis, who heads the planning team at property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall, which advises landowners on renewable energy schemes. Read more
A WIND Farm developer has pledged cheaper electricity for more than 1200 homes should their plan be accepted. RES have proposed a 17 turbine project at Keirs Hill, Patna and they say the properties could be eligible for an annual electricity discount of £118 if the development becomes operational. RES’ Read more
A move to cut subsidy for onshore wind farms has been welcomed by Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell. The UK Government is to reduce funding levels for new turbines on land, while giving more backing to offshore projects. Ministers say they will cut support for onshore wind and Read more
The Scottish Government has paved the way for a second commercial windfarm in Angus — while closing the door on another. Two reporters have upheld an appeal over the six-turbine development at Govals Farm near the A90 dual carriageway, exactly 10 years after the county’s first large-scale scheme negotiated its Read more
Bankruptcies abound as China’s central planners struggle to keep its green industry from rotting China’s aggressive push to “green” its economy and become the world leader in renewable energy is admired by many commentators in the West. Those admirers need to look again. The country’s solar panel industry, which went Read more
By Janice Gillie A reduction in onshore wind farm subsidies looks set to make very little difference to the number of turbines in the Berwickshire landscape. The UK Government announced last week that the subsidy for onshore wind farms was being reduced and subsidies for offshore turbines increasing, But despite Read more
The suggestion that Fife’s Longannet coal-fired power plant is a top polluter is not new. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) declared in October that it was one of the top two sources of carbon emissions in the country. The argument put forward by the Brussels-based Health and Environment Alliance Read more