ENERGY firm ScottishPower is reportedly planning to reduce prices by 3.3% after coming under fire for failing to pass on savings from the Government’s green levy shake-up. The move will reduce typical household dual fuel bills by £40 to £1235 for ScottishPower’s 2.2 million customers on variable price tariffs. It Read more
By Sue Restan Highland Council has been accused of “flying in the face” of expert opinion by claiming too much land has been designated as “wild” on a map designed to control the spread of windfarms. The local authority’s stance is also unpopular with anti-turbine campaigners, who welcome the designation Read more
SINCE October sightseers on the hills above Edinburgh have gawped at a brand new landmark. Across the Firth of Forth, on a test site, stands the biggest wind turbine in Britain. The tips of its blades rise 196m above sea level. Its rotor sweeps an area twice as large as Read more
A Devon councillor has branded solar farms as being like concentration camps after the latest plans to install panels in the countryside was revealed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/solarpower/10015326/Solar-farms-like-concentration-camps-Lib-Dem-councillor.html
From Denmark, a twelve minute or so excellent video on WTS.
As Chris Turney and his colleagues make their way home from their failed adventure, the next question is: who is going to be paying for their folly? It certainly isn’t the general public. The efforts by Turney and his co-leader Chris Fogwill to crowd-fund money have been an embarrassing failure. Read more
In the early 1990s, with dreams of cheap and clean wind energy ascendant, Congress lavished a generous subsidy on power from the tall, twirling turbines. The wind industry responded, and since then has increased its installed generating capacity 30-fold. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-wind-energy-subsidy-edit-0105-20140105,0,2681900.story
A major survey of leading City fund managers reveals widespread confidence in the potential of UK shale gas http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10551182/Shale-set-to-cut-energy-bills.html