Australia could delay its mandated target for renewable energy use in a compromise option being considered by the Abbott government as it faces growing internal demands to scrap the policy completely. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/08/renewable-energy-target-faces-delay
National Grid may pay businesses to operate at night to use up spare electricity from wind farms instead of paying for turbines to stop generating http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10556674/Factories-could-be-paid-to-operate-at-night-to-cut-wind-farm-compensation.html
Michael McCarthy To those of us living our lives in the lowlands, in towns and cities, there is something otherworldly about the Cairngorms. As a mountain range, it may not be the Alps, it may not be the Himalayas, but there is nonetheless something far beyond our normal scale of Read more
New paper on Balancing Mechanism and Connect and Manage Constraint Payments to Windfarms. There has been a lot of coverage in the press recently about the spiralling cost of Constraint Payments to windfarms when National Grid asks them to stop producing electricity when there is insufficient capacity in the transmission Read more
I first came across this shocking industrial wind turbine (IWT) gearbox problem some time back and posted about it here. http://billothewisp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wind-turbines-ghost-in-gearbox.html
Ministers from Germany, France and six other countries have called for the European Union to set a 2030 goal for renewable energy use, in opposition to their British counterpart who advocates a sole greenhouse gas emissions target. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/07/eu-2030-renewable-energy-target-ministers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487