by KRISTY DORSEY SLOW progress on electricity reforms are doing little to help decision-making for some of the biggest projects in the renewables sector, it has been claimed. The Energy Bill passed into law last month with the promise of driving the £110 billion of investment needed to replace polluting Read more
Plans for a hydro-electric power station in a Deeside conservation area in the west of Aberdeen have been recommended for approval by city council planners. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/01/hydro-scheme-scottish-nature-spot-wins-backing/
French energy giant expected to take 40pc stake in UK fracking licenses http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10565189/Total-to-invest-30m-in-Britains-shale-gas-hunt.html
Olympics chief John Armitt believes only power cuts will force politicians to confront lack of energy infrastructure investment http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/10/armitt-power-blackouts-politicians-energy-crisis-infrastructure
Britain will be free to generate more of its energy from nuclear power and build fewer wind and solar farms after the European Commission rejected calls for a legally binding renewable energy target for 2030. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3972094.ece
Golf legend Old Tom Morris would be “turning in his grave” over the prospect of a wind turbine at an Angus golf course he designed. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/forfar-golf-club-turbine-plan-would-have-old-tom-morris-turning-in-his-grave-1.175323
Richard Burdge A controversial community wind turbine project that would have blighted a nationally important bird sanctuary has been rejected. The Scottish Government’s own reporter has judged that the three-turbine plan at Tillyrie, near Milnathort, would have had an unacceptable impact on the Loch Leven basin and the Ochil Hills. Read more
By Craig Borland The fate of £95,000 in public money used to help draw up the doomed plans for three wind turbines at Ascog Farm remains unclear this week. Scotland’s energy minister, Fergus Ewing, has written to constituency MSP Michael Russell to say that money given to the scheme by Read more