Upgraded MoD radar could open windfarm floodgates – Press and Journal

MILITARY chiefs may have opened the floodgates to scores more windfarm
schemes in the north and north-east by upgrading their radar systems.

The days of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) trying to block planning
applications for new turbine developments in Aberdeenshire and the Western
Isles could soon be at an end.

The Press and Journal has learned that a contract has been signed to update
the remote radar head (RRH) sites at Buchan, south of Peterhead, and
Benbecula with new “windfarm-friendly” technology. Work on the upgrade is
due to be completed by the middle of next year, and a spokesman for the MoD
has confirmed it will “mitigate the effects of wind turbines on the radar
capability”.

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